Susan Glaspell's Trifles
In the early 1900 's, women were not known to have high rank jobs or work full time at all. They were the one 's who did all the cleaning, cooking, and the ones who took care of the children. Women didn 't really start having jobs that paid till the 1920 's - 1930 's. But until then, the men did the majority of the work out in society. In a play called, Trifles, by Susan Glaspell, which was written and took place in 1916, two women by the names of Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters lived in a small town where a murder had just occurred. While the county attorney and the sheriff try and look for clues around the house and try to figure out who to suspect, the two women figure out the case on their own. With their suspicions towards the wife of the man
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Hale and Mrs. Peters didn 't say anything to the men about their findings, during the play, was because their society was holding them back from doing the right thing. Women rarely spoke up back then, and even if they did, the subject matter wouldn 't have been nearly as big of an issue as a murder. These women are literally being forced to keep their mouths shut because of the way women were perceived in this period of time. No one wanted or expected to hear that two women solved the case of a murder in a small town (or any size town) before or even faster than a man. Wouldn 't everyone be shocked and utterly surprised if they knew what Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters had found out? This would change everything for women, or would it? Would the men in their society even believe them; or would they just ignore the fact that a woman could do a job better than a man could? Or would they ignore them all together, just like how they were some what treated back then? Society was very different in the early 1900 's from what it is now. And it 's not that women were not given any attention at all; but all their real attention was directed at there cooking, how clean they kept their houses, who was married to who, and taking care of their children. In this period of time, since women did not have paying jobs, no recognition could be given to them for doing anything big for their society; especially for doing the sheriffs job, like solving a murder
Hale and Mrs. Peters didn 't say anything to the men about their findings, during the play, was because their society was holding them back from doing the right thing. Women rarely spoke up back then, and even if they did, the subject matter wouldn 't have been nearly as big of an issue as a murder. These women are literally being forced to keep their mouths shut because of the way women were perceived in this period of time. No one wanted or expected to hear that two women solved the case of a murder in a small town (or any size town) before or even faster than a man. Wouldn 't everyone be shocked and utterly surprised if they knew what Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters had found out? This would change everything for women, or would it? Would the men in their society even believe them; or would they just ignore the fact that a woman could do a job better than a man could? Or would they ignore them all together, just like how they were some what treated back then? Society was very different in the early 1900 's from what it is now. And it 's not that women were not given any attention at all; but all their real attention was directed at there cooking, how clean they kept their houses, who was married to who, and taking care of their children. In this period of time, since women did not have paying jobs, no recognition could be given to them for doing anything big for their society; especially for doing the sheriffs job, like solving a murder