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Susan Glaspell's Trifles, By August Wilson

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Life is like a seesaw, sometimes we show a courage to won or sometimes we show the power.
Susan Glaspell short play, ‘’Trifles ‘’was about a woman who killed her husband because she thinks that her life is difficult and sad just for him. Susan Glaspell shows two women, Mrs. Peter and Mrs. Hale. Mrs. Peter was a wife of the sheriff who investigates Mr. Wright murdered, and Mrs. Hale was a wife of hale they are neighbor of Mrs. Wright's. Mrs. Wright was a slightly wiry woman and Mrs. Hale was a slightly wiry woman, a thin nervous face. (Glaspell 14). In a ‘’Fence, By August Wilson’’ is a short story he portrays the African American experience between the 1900s to 2000 (Wilson 11). In Fence August Wilson shows the story of a poor family. Troy …show more content…

Hale and Mrs. Peter shows the courageous to disguise the evidence from Sheriff and attorney because if they tell them to court will never understand her emotions and gave her serious punishment. When they find a cage and then they see a fancy box, In the fancy box there was a bird up in this piece of silk. ’Steps are heard outside. Mrs. Hale slips box under quilt pieces and sinks into her chair. Enter Sheriff and County Attorney Mrs. Peters rises’’ (Glaspell 29). Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peter demonstrate the courageous to hide the evidence before the Sheriff and attorney had seen it. They understand that Mr. Wright was a strict man for his wife’s. Wright was a lonely woman because without children and with a bored husband I, it must be having been lonely for her.’’ Wright wouldn't like the bird—a thing that sang. She used to sing. He killed that, too’’ (Glaspell 31) This statement revealed that Mr. Wright didn’t like the bird and he also didn’t like that her wife was singing. Mr. Wright killed a bird that’s why her wife take a revenge on his husband because she could not waste her life anymore and take the abuse from her husband. In a Trifles by Susan Glaspell shows that how two women Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peter showed courageous to hide all evidence to prove that Mrs. Wright was …show more content…

Maureen was a Catholic woman and active member of her local church group. She has a deep belief in Christian virtue. For example, in part one Maureen said that past few years are very terrible for her and ‘’because I was going to go on sinning and sinning until the day I died when I would commit the biggest sin of all (Hornby 5). This line shows that Maureen was very deserved because of religious and she thinks that she is doing everything wrong until the day she died. Yet, Maureen was a soft heart woman, when Jess organize a reunion meeting. Maureen showed the courage to help Jess for good relationship with her parents. She helps her to tell her parents that ‘’ ‘’ So I told Jess’s father that I thought Jess just wanted people to understand better, and that I was sorry if that wasn’t what had happened’’ (Hornby 288) Maureen also said to her parents that might be Jen took her earrings with her and Jess was telling the truth. She thinks might be their parents had a good attitude with Jess. ‘’ When I went home, Mum and Dad wanted to speak to me. And at first, I was like, Whatever, but they were keen, and Mum made me a cup of tea and sat me down at the kitchen table, and then she said that she wanted to apologize to me about the earrings and that she knew who’d pinched them (Hornby 317) this statement described that her parents had realized that Jess

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