Interestingly enough, she does this shortly after Frank has just lent her a book-one of the first indicators in the play that both Frank and Rita have things they can teach one another. When she first comes to study with Frank, she can’t believe that he hasn’t read it, immediately pulling a copy out of her bag and lending it to him. In Educating Rita, Rita loves the book so much that she takes the author’s first name, insisting that everybody call her Rita instead of her real name, which is Susan. Known as the first lesbian coming-of-age novel, Rubyfruit Jungle has been both critiqued and praised for its sexually explicit content. In Educating Rita, Rita Mae Brown’s 1973 novel, Rubyfruit Jungle, represents the difference between open-mindedness and close-mindedness when it comes to literature and education.
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