In this, the book, we see the author's original intent. The original ending of the play, in which Lulu gains freedom by walking away from the security of the family, was considered so controversial that a new ending was written. Zona Gale: This Is the Novel, Written in 1920, and Republished in. This novel is the basis of the 1921 play for which Zona Gale became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama. Miss Lulu Bett An American Comedy of Manners (1921). What follows brings Lulu into conflict with the self-satisfied Dwight, forcing her to choose how she defines herself, with unexpected results. The surprise is even greater when Lulu returns home alone from their homeymoon trip, with the news that Ninian was already legally married before he married her. It therefore surprises everyone, Lulu included, when Dwight's visiting brother Ninian proposes to her, and she accepts. She is, uncomplainingly, "the family beast of burden," living in the background and tending to the family's needs. Lulu Bett is a spinster, living at the turn of the 20th century essentially as a servant with her sister Ina and brother-in-law Dwight.
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