Plot+Summary

The play begins with Mommy and Daddy sitting in armchairs facing each other.Mommy starts to talk about a wheat hat that she bought earlier that day.Grandma then enters carrying neatly wrapped boxes.The three of them talk for a bit and then Grandma gets on the subject about treatment of old people; she claims that elders go deaf because of the way people talk to them.Then, the doorbell rings and Grandma asks if it’s the “van people.”Mrs. Barker appears at the door and they invite her in.She makes herself comfortable and Mommy and Daddy start to question her visit.Mrs. Barker isn’t quite sure and asks Mommy for some water.Grandma then explains to Mrs. Barker the reason for her visit; Mommy and Daddy adopted a child a while back.However, when the child started causing trouble they decided to murder him.They went to the adoption agency and demanded another child, but they didn’t get one.At that moment, the doorbell rings; Young man appears claiming that he will do anything for money.Grandma looks at the man and says he is the American Dream.She asks him why he is willing to do anything for money; he responds by telling us that he lost his mother during his birth, and he never met his father.He also reveals that he and his twin brother got separated when they were young.Young man then starts to explain how his brother got murdered.Grandma then suspects that Young Man is the solution to Mommy and Daddy’s dilemma.So she has him carry all of her boxes outside at which time Mommy, Daddy, and Mrs. Barker reappear.Grandma then steps outside of the house and Young Man steps inside the house.She announces that she is leaving and that this man will be her replacement.