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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reporter‚ covered the court case and conviction of a woman accused of murdering her abusive husband. Based on these events‚ her play is a social commentary put into the form of a murder mystery. In it‚ a man‚ John Wright‚ is strangled to death in bed next to his wife‚ Minnie Foster Wright‚ who had allegedly slept right through his murder. The neighbors begin searching for clues‚ but it becomes apparent that some of them are attempting to cover something up. The viewers of the play are then faced with
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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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Mrs. Wright? How do they react to then men? BE SPECIFIC The relationship between the two Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale is that one is the wife of the sheriff in charge of the investigation of a murder that other in company of her husband found. They develop a similar felling for Mrs. Wright through the play. They defended Minnie of the cruel comments and false judgment made by the men. Based on this they decide to hide all possible evidence from the investigators trying hard to aid Mrs. Wright as
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“Jury of Her Peers” and Trifles are two of the same story‚ one being a play‚ the other a short story. They both have some similarities but but also have some differences. The stories are almost the same as they do give out the same story of an investigation of a murder inside a farm home. They each tell the reader some information on what each the characters do and say. In both the stories‚ you find that one of the characters‚ Mrs. Hale‚ has an issue of things not not being finished as “it
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Paragraph 2: * Now that the reader has been introduced to these women and characters * What is your impression * How did your impression of these character change and why * What caused the changes * Talk about Mrs Wright being a little shady * Is she the murderer? * What the men missed and why * They’re rude demeanor * They’re “better than women” mindset * Led to them losing out on important
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You mean I musn’t get stooped over and thin chested and go slouhing around “ ( wright 106). Women in the 1900’s were proper and classy. There was no slouching or obnous behvaior of any sort. To be a fin a lady Sammy would have to become well educated in conversation and know how to converse with people waround hr wtout using slang terms”” she must know how to think and talk abot the things that really matter “ ( wright 105). Thoughto the noel SAmmy Lane becomes more eduated and learns how to talk
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(Glaspell‚ 2012‚ p. 555). Mr. Hale had come over to use Mr. and Mrs. Wright’s party phone. The play uses a lot of hearsay evidence instead of hard evidence like actually seeing the act of killing her husband. The main character is Minnie Wright. The play opens with Mrs. Wright sitting in her chair as her husband John lays upstairs with a rope around his neck. There was a group of ladies standing around talking about how Minnie changed over the years. The once upbeat woman is now nothing but a shadow of herself
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