Susan Glaspell's Trifles
Haley Spiva
Dr. Young
English 102
24 March 2008
Symbolism in Glaspell’s Trifles Trifles was written by Susan Glaspell in 1916. Ms. Glaspell was a writer for the Des Moines News. The play started out by four characters of the play going over to the house of John Wright, due to a murder that happened at his house. George Henderson is the County Attorney, Henry Peters is the sheriff, Lewis Hale is the neighbor’s farmer, and also two women are in this play, Mrs. Peters, the sheriff’s wife and Mrs. Hale. All of the characters appeared in this play. The main character is Mrs. Wright, whom you only hear briefly in the beginning of the play and the other characters talk about her throughout the play. Trifles is about the mysterious murder if Mr. Wright. Mrs. Wright is a suspect of her husband’s death after Mr. Hale makes a surprise visit to the Wright’s home. Mr. Hale started to town with a load of potatoes. He came along the road from his place. Mr. Hale decided to go by Mr. Wright’s house. When he knocked on the door, he thought someone said “come in.” After he got into the house, he saw Mrs. Wright sitting at her chair with a queer aspect. She was really quiet and had a blank expression upon her face. …show more content…
We clearly see this when the highly trained “male” officials was not searching inside the home for evidence and even at the end, when the county attorney asked the women how did old Mrs. Wright plan to finish her quilt and the reply was, while the women are hiding the box that held the dead bird. Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale did solve the problems, because they were looking for very special clues, but the men in this play was focused on finding clues that they believed would be found in the farmhouse and they neglected searching inside the home for clues, especially when they believed Mrs. Wright was the one who murdered her
Dr. Young
English 102
24 March 2008
Symbolism in Glaspell’s Trifles Trifles was written by Susan Glaspell in 1916. Ms. Glaspell was a writer for the Des Moines News. The play started out by four characters of the play going over to the house of John Wright, due to a murder that happened at his house. George Henderson is the County Attorney, Henry Peters is the sheriff, Lewis Hale is the neighbor’s farmer, and also two women are in this play, Mrs. Peters, the sheriff’s wife and Mrs. Hale. All of the characters appeared in this play. The main character is Mrs. Wright, whom you only hear briefly in the beginning of the play and the other characters talk about her throughout the play. Trifles is about the mysterious murder if Mr. Wright. Mrs. Wright is a suspect of her husband’s death after Mr. Hale makes a surprise visit to the Wright’s home. Mr. Hale started to town with a load of potatoes. He came along the road from his place. Mr. Hale decided to go by Mr. Wright’s house. When he knocked on the door, he thought someone said “come in.” After he got into the house, he saw Mrs. Wright sitting at her chair with a queer aspect. She was really quiet and had a blank expression upon her face. …show more content…
We clearly see this when the highly trained “male” officials was not searching inside the home for evidence and even at the end, when the county attorney asked the women how did old Mrs. Wright plan to finish her quilt and the reply was, while the women are hiding the box that held the dead bird. Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale did solve the problems, because they were looking for very special clues, but the men in this play was focused on finding clues that they believed would be found in the farmhouse and they neglected searching inside the home for clues, especially when they believed Mrs. Wright was the one who murdered her