Trifles Analysis Essay
ANALYSIS OF TRIFLES
ANALYSIS OF TRIFLES
Susan Glaspell, wanted to represent the woman from 1916 that were forgotten by society. In Trifles the characters were represented from real people in her life in the countryside involved in a murder case. However, Trifles is a one-act drama that focuses on the individual hardships the women face during that time. The description of the lives the women live as well as their individual struggles emphasizes the importance of women’s rights as a theme. Beginning at the Wright’s house in an old farm house kitchen we are introduced to a group of characters that are trying to solve a crime. The murder of John Wright is a crime thought to have been committed by Mrs. Wright. When …show more content…
While they all want justice the men are more objective and task oriented about investigating the crime. The men want to do their search of the area, get to the point and consider small details later. However, the woman seem to look over what Mrs. Wright left behind and try to make sense of what happened. Since the woman have come to the farm house to collect some of her belongings she may need in jail they lack motive and seem to discover more than the men do. The woman react more subjectively and try to understand why Mrs. Wright would murder her husband. The story seems to develop more as the woman go through Mrs. Wright’s things because they not only state their findings but they describe Mrs. Wright’s former personality as well as her situation. They describe her as being someone who liked to sing and was sweet as well as pretty but as they go through her things suspense builds. Some messy stitching on a quilt, the empty cage and the dead bird with a wrung neck build a possible motive for why she may have murdered her husband. While the woman are putting their conclusions together the men are searching for more clues around the house. They eventually conclude that
ANALYSIS OF TRIFLES
Susan Glaspell, wanted to represent the woman from 1916 that were forgotten by society. In Trifles the characters were represented from real people in her life in the countryside involved in a murder case. However, Trifles is a one-act drama that focuses on the individual hardships the women face during that time. The description of the lives the women live as well as their individual struggles emphasizes the importance of women’s rights as a theme. Beginning at the Wright’s house in an old farm house kitchen we are introduced to a group of characters that are trying to solve a crime. The murder of John Wright is a crime thought to have been committed by Mrs. Wright. When …show more content…
While they all want justice the men are more objective and task oriented about investigating the crime. The men want to do their search of the area, get to the point and consider small details later. However, the woman seem to look over what Mrs. Wright left behind and try to make sense of what happened. Since the woman have come to the farm house to collect some of her belongings she may need in jail they lack motive and seem to discover more than the men do. The woman react more subjectively and try to understand why Mrs. Wright would murder her husband. The story seems to develop more as the woman go through Mrs. Wright’s things because they not only state their findings but they describe Mrs. Wright’s former personality as well as her situation. They describe her as being someone who liked to sing and was sweet as well as pretty but as they go through her things suspense builds. Some messy stitching on a quilt, the empty cage and the dead bird with a wrung neck build a possible motive for why she may have murdered her husband. While the woman are putting their conclusions together the men are searching for more clues around the house. They eventually conclude that