You Can T Take It With You Character Analysis

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The play, You Can’t Take It With You, by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, publishing company Dramatists Play Service INC, has a comedic script that has jokes teenagers and adults will understand. The comedic aspect of the play might go over the heads of some teenagers unless they were to actually go see the play, but they will still enjoy it either way. There were many characters in this play, but the two major characters were Alice Sycamore and Tony Kirby. You Can’t Take It With You is set in the time period of 1937, at the Vanderhof house in New York. In You Can’t Take It With You, the housing situation is very interesting. Everyone lives in the Vanderhof home. Martin Vanderhof is the grandfather and all his children and their children…show more content…
Martin hasn’t payed any of his taxes so the IRS is investigating. Alice Sycamore, daughter of Penelope (Penny), is considered the “normal” one of the family (The Vanderhofs are very eccentric and out-there). She is dating Tony Kirby, but Alice is very ashamed of her family and doesn’t think that Tony’s parents will accept her’s. The plot really gets started when Alice and Tony go out on a date then afterwards, get engaged. In the next act, the Vanderhof family is very excited about the engagement, so they plan to invite the Kirby household over for dinner. Since Alice wanted to show Tony’s parents that her family was supposedly normal, Tony decided to bring his parents over a night earlier so Mr. & Mrs. Kirby could see the real Vanderhofs. Nobody in the household was prepared, and it seemed like a disaster was occurring with the drunk, the wrestling, and the uncomfortable truth game. There was, also, barely any small talk. As the Kirbys were about to leave, three officers arrived and without saying too much, lets just say that the firework experiments performed by Paul (Penny’s husband) and Mr. De Pinna are very important aspects in this event. Along with an event that occurred before, dealing with Ed (Penny’s son-in-law) and a note in which he attached to the candy he sells, and sent

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