The correct answer is to understand references.
Our Town requires the audience to understand references in order to create meaning.
Thorton Wilder is the author of “Our Town”. He was an American writer that won two Pulitzer prizes in different categories: drama and literature. “Our Town” for drama and “The Bridge of St Louis” for literature. With the novel “The Skin of our Teeth” he won another Pulitzer price of literature in 1943. “Our Town” is a simple novel of a married couple from New Jersey: George Gibbs and Emily Webb.