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  • What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?: All over the place. Here's to start you off: the name "Antrobus" comes from the Greek for "human" or "person". Good luck unraveling all the other symbolism.
  • Values Resonance: The part of the play that Sabina states "means refugees". At the time Wilder wrote the play, the refugees he had in mind were those fleeing Nazi Germany, but in The New '10s, heated debates emerged (especially in the United States and Europe) over accepting refugees from the Middle East and Latin America, making the reference and commentary very relevant once again.

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