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You Can't Take It with You Summary & Study Guide Description
You Can't Take It with You Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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You Can't Take It with You Plot Summary
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Act I, Scene i
You Can't Take It wilh You takes place in the living room of Grandpa Martin VanderhoFs home in New York City. The action begins on a Wednesday evening in 1936. The curtain rises on an eclecti-cally decorated room containing a solarium full of snakes, a xylophone, and a printing press in addition to more common furniture items like chairs and tables.
The first scene of the play introduces the members of the eccentric Vanderhof-Sycamore household as they come in and out of the living room. Grandpa's middle-aged daughter Penny Sycamore sits at a rickety card table industriously typing a play. She is joined by her twenty-nine-year-old daughter, Essie Carmichael, who makes and sells candy but really wants to be a dancer. Essie wears ballet slippers and dances rather than walks from place to place. Next, Rheba, the family maid, comes in and listens to Penny explain that her play's...
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