Analysis of Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles” The scene of Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles” is set in a gloomy‚ unkempt‚ and now abandoned farm house. The town sheriff‚ the county attorney‚ and Mr. Hale along with the sheriff’s wife and Mrs. Hale‚ a neighbor‚ enter through the kitchen. The men are there to investigate the death of the owner‚ Mr. Wright. The women have come along to gather some things to take to Mrs. Wright who is in jail for the murder of her husband. Susan Glaspell ties the
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September 25‚ 2010 Professor Kitt English 218: “Trifles” “Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.” – Queen Victoria. A trifle is defined by Webster’s dictionary as: something of little value‚ substance or importance; to some small degree. In the one act play‚ “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell‚ she reveals how insignificant and meaningless trifles to one person’s point of view‚ can be colossal and monumental trifles in the individual’s life who is experiencing them
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Trifles The play Trifles by Susan Glaspell is a well written story that I enjoyed every minute reading. Susan Glaspell’s play is about a woman that killed her husband. The protagonist of the paly Trifles killed her own husband because she was facing gender inequality with her husband and also because she was feeling lonely. First of all‚ the protagonist of this play killed her own husband because he was behaving as if he was her master. He was treating her as his housemaid and he was more likely
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Trifles by Susan Glaspell In reading Trifles‚ I felt the two primary themes are gender differences and isolation. First‚ gender differences is important because women were treated differently in the household and their opinions weren’t taken seriously many times by men. Men thought that women were concerned with nothing but trivial things like cooking‚ cleaning‚ gossiping. But women’s intelligence was underestimated by men‚ so when they had "intelligent" thoughts or expressed their opinions
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The name Trifles and its significance John Wright was murdered in his bedroom; someone had took a rope and put it around his neck and strangled him. All the men‚ the sheriff‚ the country attorney‚ and the neighbor‚ thought his wife was the one killed him. This play is based on events that happened in the early 20th century. Susan Glaspell‚ the writer‚ uses the word trifles appropriately when naming this play‚ and she uses this play to establish that women were taken for granted. First‚ you can
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In the play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell it was a very interesting and suspenseful play. This play is about a women being accused of killing her husband. The play takes place around the 1916 where they try to find out who killed Mrs. Wright husband John Wright. Hale‚ starts telling what happen that day when he went to the Wrights home. That afternoon Hale was going to ask John if he wanted to go put up a telephone. When Hale starts to explain the situation to the sheriff and the county general in
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Essay on the Play Trifles Introduction In Susan Glaspell ’s‚ "Trifles‚" symbolism is used to emphasize the meaning of the play. Glaspell writes of a woman who murdered her husband because he was to blame for her cold and lonely life [1]. Susan Glaspell wrote Trifles in 1916‚ basing this brief‚ one-act play on the murder of the sixty-year-old John Hossack‚ which she had covered extensively during her stint as a journalist with the Des Moines Daily News after her graduation from Drake University
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The short one-act play Trifles by Susan Glaspell‚ was years ahead of its time. Its time was 1916 but the subject matter is timeless. The aspect of this play that most caught my interest was the contrast between the men and women characters. This is a play written in the early 1900s but transcends time periods and cultures. This play has many strengths and few weaknesses‚ but helps to provide a very accurate portrait of early American women and the issues they dealt with in everyday comings and
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Karen Alkalay-Gut‚ in "Jury of Her Peers: The Importance of Trifles‚" also finds the gulf between male and female perceptions of judgment to be central to the play. Alkalay-Gut believes that the unfolding evidence not only unites the women‚ but highlights the division between "woman’s concept of justice‚" which entails "social" and "individual influences‚ together with the details that shaped the specific act‚" and "[t]he prevailing law [which] is general‚ and therefore . . . inapplicable to the
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Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles is probably often misinterpreted by many viewers. One person made the following comment‚ "Trifles is a lousy mystery. All the action took place before the curtain went up. Almost in the beginning‚ on the third page‚ we find out who done it.’ So there isn’t really much reason to sit through the rest of the play." Trifles does center around a murder investigation‚ but the mystery is not about "who done it‚" but why it was done. Women’s lowly social status at the time
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