Emily stares at him indifferently, as if the experience she just had separated her from her life before. George comes up to her tombstone and drops to his knees, sobbing. She becomes distraught and asks to be returned to the graveyard. Emily realizes that she wasted her time while alive, just as almost all humans do. There, she sees her mother toiling away needlessly instead of spending time with her family and paying attention to what matters. She begs the Stage Manager to take her back to a special day, despite warnings from the other dead, and he takes her to her twelfth birthday. She realizes immediately where she is but begins thinking about her life and wants to revisit those memories. Emily wanders into the graveyard, confused and with an air of innocence. It is revealed that Emily Webb died giving birth to her second child, and her funeral begins. They sit at their graves atop the hill of Grover’s Corners, waiting for whatever may be coming next and slowly growing indifferent toward earthly matters and their previous lives. Several characters have died of various causes common for the period, such as Mrs Gibbs, the Webbs’ son Wally, the church choir leader, and several others. Act III jumps ahead nine years to the year 1913.
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