Wouldn't it be nice is a doomed love story about two young girls (Lilly and Ruby) falling in love in a hopeless time. It is 1927 and society traps them from being able to love freely, but will Lilly and Ruby challenge the conventional workings of society and love anyway? The play challenges the theme of love, and how people from the past and present were and are unable to love freely.The play also highlights the illusion of humanities power, and how upper class people of the 1920's had their specific monotony of living, and that life had to be lived a certain way. Therefore, the love of two woman shows that your feelings are the only truthful thing we have as human beings, and that the only thing that makes you hide away from your true self, is society.