Irony In Susan Glaspell's Trifles

I believe Susan Glaspell’s title Trifles refers to the scant attention or importance placed on the thoughts of the female characters, by the male characters, as well as to the inadequate deliberation with which the men attend to the trifles that are actually of import. Not only does Mr. Hale plainly state, “Well, women are used to worrying over trifles” (1283) as the men belittle the thoughtfulness and consideration of Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale in regards to Mrs. Wright worrying about her stored jars, but Sheriff Peters clearly sees just “kitchen things” (1283), while the women begin to see missing pieces of the murder motive in the everyday items. Similarly, Mr. Henderson sees “a nice mess” (1283) in the kitchen, while the women begin to recognize

Oppressive gender roles are expressed first through the title Trifles itself. By definition, a trifle is a thing of little value or importance. Whenever the women were talking about Mrs. Wright’s preserves, Hale laughs, “Well, women are used to worrying over trifles” (Glaspell 598). Using the word trifles as the title indicates that the play contains a shallow, meaningless theme or concept, but the truths found in the theme of the title are actually very far from insignificant. The trifles, although perceived by the men as trivial,

In Trifles, the differences in evidence that the men and woman notice, led men to failure in the investigation of Mr. Wright’s death, because men and women shared different perspectives in the same setting. Hence, even though all the items in the home of the Wright family, held significance and meaning to the death of Mr. Wright, the male characters dismissed these elements as they were more interested in forensic evidence. Whereas the women, on the contrary, caught on to these clues and recognized the relevance, as it revealed the bleakness of Mrs. Wright’s life. The quilt, kitchen and canary/cage are just a few of the many symbols in the play that the men treated as mere trifles which the women weighed important.

In Trifles, the women uncover the dirty truth hidden away in the Wright’s house. As they do this the women become sensitive to Mrs. Wright who is the murderer in the story. Both Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters humanize Mrs. Wright instead of just looking at her like a criminal.

Susan Glaspell’s Trifles is a play about the effect of gender differences on perceptions of duty, law, and justice. The early 1900’s is the setting, arriving at the Wright farmhouse on a crisp, cold morning. Mr. Hale, a neighbor, found John Wright murdered the morning before. Hale has brought his wife, the county attorney, the sheriff and his wife to the home so the men can investigate Wright’s death. With Mrs. Wright as the primary suspect, Henderson, the county attorney, is looking for her motive. While the sheriff and the county attorney are busy looking at the mess left in the kitchen, the women are noticing some of the smaller things, the "trifles" according to Mr. Hale. The men go upstairs, and that is when Mrs. Hale

Trifles is a hundred-year-old short one-act play written by Susan Glaspell in the year 1916. The story stays in one room, the kitchen, and follows a couple of women and men. The women who are picking up the belongings of Mrs. Wright, at her home, as she is currently in jail while a few men investigate the crime scene as the night before Mr. Wright had been strangled. The men struggle to either find a motive for Mrs. Wright to be the murderer or evidence of a break into the house to investigate other possible suspects, ultimately never finding evidence for anything strange happening in the house. The women, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale, come across a bird cage with a pulled hinge only to eventually come across a dead canary, which they assume was

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The play Trifles written by Susan Glaspell in 1916 reflects the gender differences between men and women in this time period through the investigation of Mr. Wright’s death. Men in the early 1900’s go to work, leaving the women at home to typically clean, cook and wait for the arrival of their husbands back home. This is the leading cause behind the men in Trifles being incapable of seeing the full motifs and actions behind Mrs. Wright. Leading for the women to understand more about the murder than the men from the small clues Mrs. Wright has all over the house. The insignificance of the “trifles” in the play are passed by the men due to what they thought the objects insignificance actually held dealing with the crime, which the women

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In Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles a man has been murdered by his wife, but the men of the town who are in charge of investigating the crime are unable solve the murder mystery through logic and standard criminal procedures. Instead, two women (Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters) who visit the home are able to read a series of clues that the men cannot see because all of the clues are embedded in domestic items that are specific to women. The play at first it seems to be about mystery, but it abruptly grows into a feminist perspective. The play Trifles written by Susan Glaspell can be considered a revolutionary writing in it its advocacy of the feminist movement.

A trifle is something that has little value or importance, and there are many seeming "trifles" in Susan Glaspell's one-act play "Trifles." The irony is that these "trifles" carry more weight and significance than first seems to be the case. Just as Glaspell's play ultimately reveals a sympathetic nature in Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale, the evidence that the men investigators fail to observe, because they are blind to the things that have importance to a woman, reveals the identity of the murderer and are, therefore, not really "trifles," after all. Thus, the title of the play has a double-meaning: it refers, satirically, to the way "trifling" way some men perceive women, and it also acts as an ironic gesture to the fact that women are not as "trifling" as these men make them out to be. This paper will analyze setting, characters, plot, stage directions, symbolism, themes and genre to show how Glaspell's "Trifles" is an ironic indictment not of a murderess but rather of the men who push women to such acts.

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2. The true definition of the word “Trifles” is something of very little value or importance. “Trifles” is a story about a small group of people trying to solve the mystery of why a woman killed her husband. Two women named Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale are helping the two men, the sheriff and the county attorney, find Mrs. Wright’s motive to kill her husband. The women begin to find small details that reveal plenty of information that could be useful in the investigation of the murder. These small details that the women find around Mrs. Wright’s home are “Trifles” to the men. As Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale search around the house, Mrs. Peters finds a bird cage in a cupboard. Mrs. Hale finds a dead bird wrapped in a box with its neck broken, and in finding this, they come to the realization that Mrs. Wright killed her husband because he killed her bird. The women know that Mrs. Wright’s husband did not enjoy her singing and he would never allow her to have a bird because it sang too.

"Trifles" is a play with a unified plot. Although there are verbal flashbacks to the events of the day of the murder of John Wright, the play's entire plot begins and ends in a span of one day. The author also extends the unified plot to create a single setting (the farmhouse kitchen). The plot centers on John Wright's murder. Mrs. Wright is the main suspect; an investigation is taking place as to the motive or reason for the crime.