Trifles By Susan Glaspell Gender Roles

As time goes on gender roles have continually changed. It had not been that long since the woman has defeated the status quote of being equal to a man. In “Trifles”, a story written by: Susan Glaspell’s it challenges the sexual category roles during the course of the play and through their personal deep works. This Drama is set in the Renaissance times and gives a lot of space for woman to have a gift for definite parts. This play takes a glimpse at gender roles in an innovative glow and provides interesting points that test the people who reads.
“Trifles” is presented around the point of view of female characters and on several married couples. At Mrs. Wright’s home a day after her husband has been murdered is where the story takes place and it starts with a conversation between Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters. Mrs. Peters is the Sheriff’s wife and Mrs. Hale is the wife of the attorney. The way the story is present, Mrs. Wright is suspected of matter of fact killing husband. In this conversation that Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are having it is recognized that these two women are against their gender roles by keeping facts from their husbands.
Mrs. Hale openly speaks about Mrs. Wright “was kind of a bird herself” A bird seems to be good in this point of the play, but as the play goes on the one reading the story realizes that “birds can be trapped in cages in the same way that woman might be trapped into their gender roles”. In the story the woman sews a dead body of a canary into a quilt after she found the canary strangled. The canary was strangled by her husband and sewed into the quilt by the wife Mrs. Wright. That scenario shows how the wife will and free will was overlooked for her roles as a woman. At this time I started to see Mrs. Wright as a desperate