Miss Firecracker Contest

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Demount Williams 23 carnell's first cousin elaine's brother Brookhaven Mississippi; a small southern town The ending of june and beginning of july
Well i'm going to sell it. I'm going to sell this house and every stick of furniture in it. And i don't want to hear anything from you bout it. Its mine; its been given to me. And i'm not going to feel sorry for you just because you went and dyed your hair fire engine red.
As the Miss Firecracker contest opens, Carnelle Scott is practicing her talent routine for the upcoming Fourth of july beauty pageant in Brookhaven, Mississippi. A seamstress, Popeye Jackson, arrives and carnelle hires her to make a pageant costume. As popeye takes measurements she tells carnelle that she got her sewing start …show more content…
It was a the first play that Beth Henley wrote after crimes of the heart but it was already produced before crimes of the heart won the pulitzer prize. Eventually both plays were produced on broadway and made into the screenplays aslo so written by henley. Holly Hunted play the lead role in both the broadway and movies versions of The Miss Firecracker contest. It became available in book form in 1985 from the dramatist play service. This story belongs in the group of southern gothic comedies for which henley is best known. Its heroine carnelle is an irresponsible young women who think that winning the local beauty contest will restore her soiled reputation and make her somebody in her small mississippi community. The family and friends who help her along the way are dysfunctional bunch who tackle life in their own peculiar ways. There is a former beauty queen cousin elaine who comes home from mental institution to sell the family house and provide carnelle another way. Wandering into the chaos as carnelle seamstress is sweet and strange Popeye who falls in love with delmont. The general conclusion the characters reach is that even id the real you is not the fulfillment of your hopes you will be more at peace if you learn to define and accept your own self. As are most Hensley's work this play is set in a small southern town in delmont mississippi a beauty pageant

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