Susan Glaspell’s Trifles explores the loss of companionship and the psychological effect that isolation can have on a person through the quiet conversation of Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters. Glaspell writes‚ “MRS. HALE [Not as if answering that.] I wish you’d seen Minnie Foster when she wore a white dress with blue ribbons and stood up there in the choir and sang. [A look around the room.] Oh‚ I wish I’d come over here once in a while! That was a crime! That was a crime! Who’s going to punish that?” (Glaspell)
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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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Susan Glaspell was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright‚ actress‚ novelist‚ and journalist. Glaspell wrote the play Trifles which tells the story two investigations being conducted over murder of John Wright. While the male characters of the play conduct an “official” investigation the female characters find themselves inadvertently conducting their own “unofficial” investigation. However this is not a run-of-the-mill murder mystery play‚ in which the focus lies solely on discovering the
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emotions‚ and the most significant emotion is happiness. Happiness can range from something as a big as winning the power ball to something as miniscule as a pet. The miniscule things are what tie us down‚ and make sure we stay sane. In the play Trifles by the playwright Susan Glaspell the thing that tied down a Midwestern farmwife Minnie Wright‚ was her little canary. The one miniscule thing that kept her sane from all of the sadness that surrounded her caused by her emotionally abusive husband
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Susan Glaspell’s work in “trifles” gives the reader an example of an antihero. With Minnie Wright as one of the main characters‚ and fulfilling some of the qualities and characteristics that Aristoteles describes as tragic hero‚ such as tragic flaw‚ noble stature and the punishment exceeds the crime. That way it can be said that she forms part of the description. As the reader keeps reading it shows Minnie’s attitude and how peculiar it turns out to be‚ shows Minnie’s tragic flaw… When Mr. Hale
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Literary Review of Susan Glaspell’s "Trifles" Susan Glaspell’s play "Trifles" is based on a true story and was written in 1916. Glaspell’s "Trifles" demonstrates the male-dominated society and how women were overlooked and had limited rights in the 19th century through symbolism. The play took place in winter in the abandoned kitchen of John Wright. Mr. Wright is a farmer and was murdered in the middle of the night as he lay asleep. The prime suspect for the crime was John Wright’s wife‚ Minnie
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The Trifles of Men and Women “Trifles” is a classic tale of patriarchal society in which women are in the home and men deal with the out of home issues. Things dealing with the home are “Trifles” according the 1917 play by Susan Glaspell. In her play she demonstrates how‚ in her society‚ people are changed by marriage‚ especially women‚ and how man and women find different things important. Mr. and Mrs. John Wright had a seemingly healthy relationship to the public‚ however‚ their marriage had
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Susan Glaspell’s Trifles (1916) is about the fine line between moral beliefs and justice. Susan Glaspell was a pioneer for feminist drama. She was the daughter of a grain dealer and grew into one of America’s greatest play writers. She also attended college at Drake University and was a reporter for some time. Her inspiration for writing plays came later when she married a theatrical director named George Cook. It is because of him that she established Americas first influential noncommercial theater
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Local color or regional writing is when an author writes a piece of work that depicts a realist view of a certain area (book 12-13). In a local color literary work‚ the author writes about an area’s customs‚ beliefs‚ and ideals by using the spoken language and society’s actions (book 12-13). Grose and Mustazza analyzes two of the main hints of this piece being a local color writing. An example of both techniques is when Glaspell writes: “She said the fire’d go out and her jars would break” (book 744)
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Christine Pena Prof. Compton ENG 102 28 April 2014 Comparative Analysis: Trifles vs. A Jury of Her Peers During the 1900s‚ women are basically downgraded by men who does not understand the hard work that the women does in their everyday chores. Susan Glaspell‚ author of Trifles and Jury of Her Peers‚ highlighted the portrayal of men’s superiority over women in both of her works. She was the journalist who covered the John Hossack murder case which are the bases of both the short story and the
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