Mrs. Wright’s ‘housekeeping’ ability. Additionally‚ the County Attorney conveniently forgets how Sheriff Peters insinuates Frank disturbed the crime scene: “When it dropped below zero last night I thought I’d better send Frank out this morning to make a fire for us—no use getting pneumonia with a big case on‚ but I told him not to touch anything except the stove—and you know Frank.” Unlike the County Attorney‚ Mrs. Hale remembers Sheriff Peter’s innuendo: “Duty’s all right‚ but I guess that deputy sheriff
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crime scene at the Wright House. Rather than being objective investigators‚ their negative views towards women and their discriminatory nature of the opposite sex caused them to overlook the situation and automatically branded Mrs. Wright as the killer with no regard for her emotions or state of mind at the time of the murder. The men were more concerned with criticizing Mrs. Wright’s lack of proper homemaking skills than trying to find the reason behind the murder of Mr. Wright. In line 157‚ while
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The Treatment of Women in Trifles "Trifles‚" a one-act play written by Susan Glaspell‚ is a cleverly written story about a murder and more importantly‚ it effectively describes the treatment of women during the early 1900s. In the opening scene‚ we learn a great deal of information about the people of the play and of their opinions. We know that there are five main characters‚ three men and two women. The weather outside is frighteningly cold‚ and yet the men enter the warm farmhouse first
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false- or not- accusations. It was written in 1916 and helped to usher in the women’s sufferage movement by generating awareness. In this story‚ the women discover a vitally important piece of evidence‚ a bird with a broken neck. Even though Mrs. Wright claims she did not murder her husband‚ with a motive in hand the courts could easily overturn her plea; however‚ the men feel the women are worried about silly things- trifles. While the plot initially seems very simple and straightforward‚ there
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characters‚ settings‚ objects as symbols to show the reader that men did not appreciate women and women at that time period did not have any freedom and happiness. In the drama‚ when Mr. Peters‚ Mr. Hale‚ Mrs. Peter and Mrs. Hale enter the kitchen of the Wright household‚ their conversations and their actions show that men do not appreciate women. For example‚ County Attorney says‚ “And yet. For all their worries‚ what would we do without the ladies? Dirty towels! Not much of a housekeeper‚ would you say
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find a dead bird which is one of the most important details that they build their conclusions on. The women hide this because they don’t want the men find it as a motive for Mrs. Wright to kill her husband‚ and the play ends after the women mislead the men. The bird in the play is highly symbolic for Mrs. and Mr. Wright which I think Susan has succeeded in using it. Review Description Symbols in literature add further meanings and make the meaning stay in the reader’s mind. As many plays
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realize that the final decision that Mrs. Wright made about the quilt reflected her most recent decision. The men show‚ yet again‚ that they see the women as trifles and what they do as small‚ and insignificant by saying‚ “Oh‚ I guess they’re not very dangerous things the ladies have picked out” (812). The men hardly observe what the women had picked out to take to Mrs. Wright‚ who is in prison. If they had‚ they might have realized what had happened to Mr. Wright‚ like the observative women did. If the
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learn it is the women’s “trifles” that solves the murder of Mr. Wright‚ something the men were not able to do. The men come to the scene of the crime and attempt to look through the eyes of legal investigators where the county attorney conducts his investigation by the book‚ interviewing witnesses and asking for only the facts (Holstein). The fact that all three men find “no importance” of the mess in the kitchen left by Mrs. Wright and stating “women are used to worrying over trifles” (Glaspell)
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Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles”‚ takes place in an abandoned farmhouse‚ where the owner‚ Mrs. Wright‚ had allegedly murdered her husband. The play is mainly based around Mrs. Hale‚ the wife of the man who found Mr. Wright‚ and Mrs. Peters who is the wife of the sheriff‚ who is investigating the murder. The women mainly stay in the kitchen‚ while their misogynist husbands investigate‚ however the women are the ones who solve the crime. Susan Glaspell’s theme of “Trifles” was how marriage can strip
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The play‚ “Trifles‚” by Susan Glaspell opens when the deputy sheriff and company entering a house where a murder has occurred. Minnie Wright who is the victim’s wife is the main suspect of the crime. If I were going to try to prosecute her for the crime of murdering her husband‚ there are several things that might help convict her of the crime. The first thing I would use as evidence is the fact that is it no forced entry into the house. There was nothing in the house that showed anyone has been
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