Zona Gale's Miss Lulu Bett: An American Comedy of Manners (Classic Reprint)

Emerging from the realm of rural dramas, the familiar line, "Land sakes, ain't them pies done yet?" which opens the first act, has become so theatrical that even when a genuine housewife utters it in a real kitchen, we instinctively suspect her of attempting to emulate an actress. Into this cacophony of artificial dialogue stepped Miss Lulu Bett, bearing the revolutionary banner of banality. And under this banner march ninety-nine one-hundredths of American conversationalists.

In her book and subsequent play, Zona Gale discarded the longstanding ideal held by writers since Plutarch that their characters must express something unusual, and instead presented Dwight Herbert Deacon, who articulates the gloriously conventional with epoch-making dullness. This marked a departure from the traditional approach, where the focus had been on the extraordinary rather than the ordinary.

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