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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Tori Powers Mrs. Reddish English 151 10 November. 2016 Psychoanalytic Report: Wright‚ Minnie After thorough observation of Mrs. Wrights physical and mental behavior‚ along with the records of the police report. I am able to provide a detailed summary of my professional analysis of Mrs. Wright’s psychological state‚ before during and after the murder of her husband‚ John Wright. Through interviews with friends and neighbors‚ I was able to find some background on Mrs. Wright’s mental state pre-murder
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Susan Glaspell’s Trifles Susan Glaspell’s one act play Trifles‚written in 1916‚ is based on actual events that occurred at the turn of the century in Iowa. Glaspell worked as a reporter where she covered the murder trial of a farmer’s wife‚ Margaret Hossack. Hossack was accused of killing her husband‚ John‚ by striking him twice in the head with an ax while he slept (Overview: Trifles). Glaspell’s memory of the Hossack trial inspired her writing of Trifles. Glaspell’s play isrepresentative of
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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. With the death of it‚ came the death of her sanity and her husband. Throughout the play the female characters discuss the
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feelings‚ and emotions. Glaspell uses her talents to demonstrate‚ through literature‚ how women were seen as only a man’s possession and not that of an individual. In Glaspell’s play Trifles‚ she uses setting‚ dialog‚ symbols‚ and concept to reveal gender conflict and exposing prejudices of that current society.
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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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difference between the roles in men and women‚ but one woman did. Susan Glaspell tackled on gender inequality and feminism in many of her short stories and plays. Her most famous play that is now considered to be a feminist masterpiece is‚ Trifles. Within Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles she portrays
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Minnie Fisher Cunningham was born on March 18‚1882 to Horatio and Sallie Fisher in New Waverly‚TX. To be an educated‚politically minded young women she received her state teaching certificate when she was 16‚but instead of pursuing her teaching career she followed the path of medicine and studied at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.After she graduated‚ her pharmacy career started‚but during her work period she realized that her pay was less than half of what her male coworkers
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nothing important here—nothing that would point to any motive?” (Glaspell 1128). “Nothing here but kitchen things” (Glaspell 1128). This is his greatest mistake. Little does he know that there is more to this gloomy‚ disorganized kitchen than he thinks. In fact‚ all the answers he is looking for are right in that room. In Trifles‚ the kitchen is the setting‚ where an investigation is taking place looking into the death of Mr. Wright‚ a farmer and the owner of the house who was strangled to death
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period also had many children in order to lessen the burden of the great amount of labor associated with maintaining a farm without modern equipment to speed the process. The setting also adds to the isolation that is explored in Trifles. The Wrights live in a small farmhouse that is in a hollow. The house is not visible from the road‚ creating a sense of extreme isolation. Because of the time period‚ the characters do not have any means of communication with those outside of their community
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