The Story of Tonight

The song "The Story of Tonight" is basically about Hamilton, Lafayette, Mulligan, and Laurens discussing how the war with the British will go down in history. The men talk about how when people will look back on the war, they will talk about the four of them on that night. Another thing that they say is how even though they might not live through the war, they are glad to be involved in the fight that will affect history forever. However, a question that occurred to me was; why is Miranda having the men sing a song like this in the first place? One thing that I thought of was, perhaps in Miranda having the four men discuss this in a song, he is trying to infer that without them we would remember the Revolution in a totally different way. I think that Miranda specifically had the four of the main male characters sing a song like this because he is trying to emphasize the importance that they played in America getting freedom from the British. If he was not trying to do this I think he probably would have had more people sing the song. Additionally, in the song “freedom” is a key word that is used in almost every line because I think that Miranda was trying to make it a point that this is the most freedom that Hamilton has ever had in his life. He is trying to show that, that is why Hamilton specifically is so passionate about getting America freedom.