The Miss Firecracker Contest (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Beth Henley
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Play
- Genres: Drama
- Subjects: Family or family life, Love or romance, South or Southerners, Mississippi, Contests, Fourth of July
- Locales: Mississippi
As are most of Henley's works, this play is set in a small southern town. In Delmont, Mississippi, a beauty pageant, the Miss Firecracker contest, is held every Fourth of July. Carnelle Scott is a contestant in this year's pagent, in which two of her cousins are also involved. The cousins have actually assembled because the aunt who raised Carnelle has died, and her two children, Carnelle's cousins Elain and Delmount, have returned home to settle matters. The house has been left to Delmount, who has just been released from a mental institution.
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