'You Can T Take It With You'

The 1936 comedy You Can’t Take It with You depicts the story of a man, Toby Kirby, from a wealthy and powerful family who becomes engaged to a woman, Alice Vanderhof, from a good-natured but undoubtedly odd family. There is an unavoidable conflict of different classes and lifestyles between the Kirbys and the Vanderhofs. In You Can’t Take It with You, the writers Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman want people open their eyes to realize living the joyful life is more important than successes, ambitions, financial profits or positions. The comedy is about an escape route during the Great Depression.
You Can’t Take It with You begins with Penelope Vanderhof Sycamore, daughter of Grandpa Vanderhof and Paul Sycamore’s wife, using a typewriter to write

Mr.De Pinna dresses like a Roman discus thrower and positions himself for Penelope to paint his portrait. Kolenkov wears his undershirt and teaches Essie about ballerina, while Ed Carmichael plays the xylophone for her. In the climax of the mess, Tony and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kirby, come in, in elegant clothing. Tony remembered incorrectly the day that they were supposed to come to the Vanderhofs' house for dinner. The Kirbys were surely supposed to come by in the following day. Seeing the madness of Alice’s family makes the Kirbys shocked. Alice is astonished. Frantically, the Vanderhof family attempts to calm the Kirbys down. All efforts to small talk failed over and over again by the ideological differences between the two families. Mrs. Kirby is disappointed by Grandpa’s snakes, Mrs. Wellington gets up, goes out of the room and sings as she is drunk. Some eggs which were prepared for dinner, are dropped down the sink by Rhebe. The play reaches a climax when Kolenkov shows off his wrestling move by knocking Mr. Kirby out to the ground. Penelope tries to appeases the atmosphere by starting a game which is called Forget-Me-Not. Unluckily, the game starts to uncover some embarrassing truths about the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Kirby; the couple evidently loses their

Penelope and Paul are broken when they know about their daughter’s leaving plan; they start to have suspicion about their vain life choices. Meantime, Tony desperately attempts to convince Alice to stay and marry him, but Alice rejects to meet him again. Forcedly, despite what happened in the previous night, the Vanderhof family’s weird actions keep reoccurring. Kolenkhov comes and asks the former Grand Duchess, Olga Katrina, who is from Russia and works at Child’s Restaurant at Times Square as a waitress for dinner. Greeted enthusiastically by the Vanderhoff, Katrina instantly gets into the kitchen to prepare her famous and delicious blintzes. Mr. Kirby suddenly shows up at the door and exerts to get Tony to go home with him. After the circumstance seems most serious, Tony and Alice start to lose hope on love and they see their love as an impossible hopeless dream. Grandpa Vanderhof begins with his philosophy of putting the happiness over money, ambitions, financial profits and successes. Grandpa persuades Tony, Mr. Kirby, and Alice not to abandon their dreams and not to lose hope on love. Mr. Kirby takes Grandpa's advice and agrees to stay for dinner. More importantly, Alice accepts to get married to Tony. At the final of the play, Grandpa reveals how he has been capable