When Sostratos sends people to speak to Knemon on his behalf they are promptly abused, and sent on their way again by the crabby old man. Toward the end of the play, Knemon has a change of heart, now welcoming the company of other people, and allowing the young couple to get married. Menanader compared to Aristophanes Menander's plays have an understandable plot, where the actions of the characters make sense to the theme, and there is an ending that ties the whole play together giving the play a satisfying conclusion. The old comedy plays sometimes had impossible plots that centered around unreal characters, who were engaging in flights of fantasy. As is Aristophanes play, Peace.
Peace is thrown into a deep cave by the God War.
He will use the beetle to fly to the God Zeus in order to beg him to make War let Peace go back to Athens. When he gets to the place where the Gods live he finds them gone. Somewhere along the way Trygaios gets a whole lot of people to go along with him. They go and get Peace from the cave ,and all fly back to earth. How they do it is left to the imagination of the audience because the beetle had left ,and flown away without them along time ago.