This play was pretty confusing, but I think I got the gist of it. "Ernest" goes to his friend Algernon's house to propose to his cousin, Gwen. Algernon forbids him to and demands him to explain himself because he has an inscription that says "Jack." Ernest admits to being both Jack and Ernest. He is Jack in the country and Ernest in the city- and he calls his alter-egos his brother. After hearing this, Algernon pretends to be Ernest too. But Jack is tired of living both lives so tells everyone that his brother Ernest has died. Gwen's mother doesn't want her to marry Jack until it turns out that he is the man that she accidentally left somewhere as a baby. But Gwen wants to marry Ernest, not Jack. With this new information of being abandoned as a baby, it turns out that Jack's real name is Ernest.
There are a few fun scenes in this play because of all the confusion of names and who is who.
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