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    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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    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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    In the short essay playTrifles‚ it shows how women pay attention to the very small things that can lead to bigger things. These are the Trifles in the play. So‚ why are women so attracted to the little details? Glaspell uses the women in the play to attract to small detail that will help in solving the big crime. This helps them see the bigger picture as to what is going on. It is very obvious in Trifles that the men only think women worry about little things. They do not comprehend that by trifling

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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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    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. 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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    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 Wright. Although

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    who did all the cleaning‚ cooking‚ and the ones who took care of the children. Women didn ’t really start having jobs that paid till the 1920 ’s - 1930 ’s. But until then‚ the men did the majority of the work out in society. In a play called‚ Trifles‚ by Susan Glaspell‚ which was written and took place in 1916‚ two women by the names of Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters lived in a small town where a murder had just occurred. While the county attorney and the sheriff try and look for clues around the house

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    than Meets the Eye “You’re convinced that there was 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

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    Paper May 8th‚ 2012 Understanding Feminism in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles Susan Glaspell lived during a time where women’s rights were not fully acknowledged. The oppression of women during this time stretched to the point that they were not truly acknowledged as their own person. They were to be seen and not heard so to speak. Their sole purpose was to take care of their families by keeping house and performing their caretaker duties. Glaspell even demonstrates in her story that the women in

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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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