You Can't Take It With You Themes
Dreams, Hopes, and Plans
Hollywood is generally into people jumping on their dream dragons and flying off to happy-ever-afters with hope explosions and all best laid plans dancing off into a dazzling future. And that's pre...
Family
In You Can't Take It With You, family is a matter of choice—and the more choices the better. Many of the people who live in Grandpa's house are blood relations, like his daughter Mrs. Sycamore, a...
Society and Class
Class in You Can't Take It With You is a little tricky. The Kirby's are obviously very upper class and snooty. But what about the Sycamores? They're figured as common folks, but they're not poor. T...
Wealth
You Can't Take It With You is all about how you can't take it with you—or, in other words, about how wealth doesn't matter and money won't make you happy. Though, it's also true that wealth is pr...