How Does Susan Glaspell Use Of Hearsay Evidence In Trifles

The play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell is based during the time before deoxyribonucleic acid evidence was used (Glaspell, 2012, p. 555). Mr. Hale had come over to use Mr. and Mrs. Wright’s party phone. The play uses a lot of hearsay evidence instead of hard evidence like actually seeing the act of killing her husband. The main character is Minnie Wright. The play opens with Mrs. Wright sitting in her chair as her husband John lays upstairs with a rope around his neck. There was a group of ladies standing around talking about how Minnie changed over the years. The once upbeat woman is now nothing but a shadow of herself. The other characters were the George Henderson a young stuck up attorney, Henry Peters the sheriff, his wife, and the neighbors