Miss Lulu Bett | Miss Lulu Bett

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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

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...

Miss Lulu Bett | Miss Lulu Bett

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