[Note: This was Lee's first and sole novel - and it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960.] The poor Southern town of deteriorating homes was authentically re-created on a Universal Studios' set.Katie announces the arrival of a coquettish Rose, sauntering up to the front steps of the house: "There's the poor old maid now.Besides, I have a luncheon engagement, so I think we'd better leave the salaries just where they are.While Kit works at the feedlot in town, and hrows hay to the morose-looking cattle (contrasted in a montage), he unpopular, shy, and impressionable Holly (in voice-over) describes how she fell in love with the image (rather than the reality) of the handsome, James Dean-like, white-trash drifter "from the wrong side of the tracks":Kit went to work in the feedlot while I carried on with my studies.It was a clear violation of the Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery, and he was to be expelled from school.