Miss Lulu Bett (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Zona Gale
- First Published: 1921
- Type of Plot: Comedy of manners
- Time of Work: 1920
- Setting: A middle-class home in a small American town
- Principal Characters: Lulu Bett, Dwight Herbert Deacon, Ina Deacon, Mrs. Bett, Ninian Deacon, Monona, Di, Mr. Cornish
- Genres: Domestic realism, Drama, Women’s literature, Comedy of manners
- Subjects: Child rearing or parenting, Family or family life, Wives, Mothers, Parents and children, Love or romance, Middle classes, Marriage, Brothers and sisters, Polygamy or bigamy, Women’s issues, Fathers, Women, Small-town life, Single people, Homemakers, Elopement
- Locales: United States
The Play
Dwight Deacon looks forward to capping his day as a dentist and justice of the peace by sitting down to a family meal cooked by his wife’s sister Lulu, a spinster who drudges for his family to earn her keep. However, his spoiled younger daughter Monona has been snitching cookies and refuses the creamed salmon. Lulu is asked to prepare milk toast for Monona, is reprimanded for buying a pink tulip in a pot for the center of the table, and is squelched when she tries to answer Dwight’s question about the price of canned salmon. The crotchety Mrs. Bett, mother of Lulu...
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