s an innkeeper before he has learned to be a gentleman These tricks contribute a lot to the comic impression of the play Marlow mistakes his future father-in-law as an innkeeper and orders him Marriage for Love and Money One of the essential characteristics is marriage for love and marriage for money The drama's plot is constructed based on marriage for love and money Tony's mother Mrs Hardcastle wants Tony to be married to Constance because she has a jewelry box But Constance loves Hastings and Tony helps them get married Mrs Hardcastle s intention of marriage is the token of marriage for money Constance marries Hastings because of their love for each other Marlow and Kate's marriage also happens because of love Satirical Comedy and Irony The second characteristic of Anti-sentimental comedy is satirical comedy We can also find this in play We find satire on class conflict in the play Marlow is satirized since he is not comfortable with the polite class but he is comfortable with the barmaid He cannot talk to Kate when he meets her for marriage but he can easily talk to her when she comes as a barmaid or servant Irony can also be found in the play The wit of Language and Verbal Dialogue In Act we find that Tony and Hastings talk about Jewell Tony steals Jewell and passes on them And then speak Ask me no question and I'll tell you no fibs The line means that if one asks a strange or nonsensical question the listener will probably respond with a similar odd or nonsensical answer Thus we can see the wit of language and verbal dialogue Farce and Disguise Many critics have described She Stopped to Conquer as a comedy of broad humor and outlandish incidents a classical farce Some characters such as Mrs Hardcastle and others create the crystal structure of the farce Disguise is also a vital characteristic of anti-sentimental comedy Here we find when Kate learns that Marlow feels uncomfortable when she dresses as an upper-class lady The following day she dressed herself as a simple person Then Marlow notices her and talks freely with her In this way we find farce and disguise both in the play She Stoops to Conquer In conclusion we can say that She Stoops to Conquer is the best example of anti-sentimental comedy because it rejects its contemporaries' emotional excess and moral didacticism Instead it embraces humor wit and farce focusing on entertaining the audience through realistic and flawed characters and absurd situations