Miss Lulu Bett

How does Zona Gale use imagery in Miss Lulu Bett?

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The play is set in the Deacons' dining room. The imagery is centered around the family's home, specifically the dining room. The imagery seen by the audience is best found in the stage directions and descriptions of the characters.

In the middle of the table was a small, appealing tulip plant, looking as anything would look whose sun was a gas jet. This gas jet was high above the table and flared, with a sound.

The child Monona was seated upon a book and a cushion, so that her little triangle of nose rose adultly above her plate.

The Deacons were devoted parents and the child Monona was delicate. She had a white, grave face, white hair, white eyebrows, white lashes. She was sullen, anaemic. They let her wear rings. She "toed in."

The temper of Mrs. Bett, who also lived with them, had days of high vibration when she absented herself from the table as a kind of self-indulgence, and no one could persuade her to food. "Tantrims," they called these occasions.

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Miss Lulu Bett