Susan Glaspell's Trifles

Little Things Mean A Lot Trifles is a one act play about two murder investigations the official formal one by the men as well as the unofficial informal one by the women.( Beatty, 1) Throughout the play the women in their own way solve the crime while the men hit a dead end. There are a variety of perceptions and interpretations of Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles”. These were the ones most attention-grabbing or noteworthy: the notion that the three women in this play Mrs. Hale, Mrs. Peters, and Mrs. Wright

Susan Glaspell one-act-play “Trifles” taken place in the 1900s. Since this play was written in the 1900s, it falls within the Modernism Period of American literature. Before she became Mrs. Wright her name used to be Minnie Foster but was referred only to Mrs. in the play trifles and was describe as a woman who used to sing in the church choir, dress nice and was once known for her lively personality, but when she got married and became Mrs. Wright, her husband John Wright who was known to be and

Wright with simple objectives. The men proceed to search for a motive that led Minnie to kill her husband while the women plan to wait and gather a few items for the widow, but the characters emerge later with entirely unexpected outcomes. Susan Glaspell’s Trifles succinctly reveals the events that take place inside the farmhouse’s eerie kitchen, focusing on Mrs. Hale who investigates the details of Mrs. Wright’s life and works with Mrs. Peters to uncover the chilling secrets of the home’s occupants

Hello Class, Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles” is a play about a woman who is be investigated for the murder of her husband. It was actually loosely based upon a true story involving the murder of a man named John Hossack, whose wife—a woman named Minnie—was also accused and originally convicted for the crime. I do believe that the theme for this play revolves around feminist theory. The two female characters named Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peter are shown to sympathize with the wife of the victim and even understand

Susan Glaspell’s 1916 play titled “Trifles” uses many elements of drama such as, diction and spectacle through the actions of the two women as they rummage through a unusually messy kitchen to develop complexity and hold the attention of the audience until the very end. Glaspell uses irony and common misconceptions to convey her powerful message “Trifles” is also a play that reflects a clear notion of gender and sex roles. Glaspell, a feminist writer, writes plays that are known for their development

Trifles is a play written by Susan Glaspell in 1916 about the investigation of a murder. Together the sheriff and his wife, the county attorney, and a neighboring couple, study a murder case in the home where it occurred. The two women pay more attention to the makeup of the home rather than the police report, which gave them an advantage in finding evidence. In the play Trifles, women challenge the stereotype of male dominance through the author’s use of symbolism and diction to find evidence for

Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles” is located on a cold, winter night in Nebraska. The main set is in the kitchen of Mr. and Mrs. Wright’s house. In this play, the man of the house Mr. Wright is murdered and a group of men and women gather together to find out what happened. The men are in charge of the investigation and the women are cleaning the messy kitchen and gossiping about what happened within the household. The men and women are on two different pages. While the men laugh at the messy scenery

Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles” attempts to answer a single question for the public. Why do women, a stereotypically quiet and submissive group, turn to murder? The male dominated society of the 1900’s found answers by simply branding them as insane; men were never to blame because only a crazy women would turn on a man. However, Glaspell empowers the women of her play in their submissive roles by utilizing the oppression by men to point out the holes in the male-dominated legal system. Linda Ben-Zvi

The Susan Glaspell play, "Trifles", does an awesome job of defining behavioral differences between men and women. The two genders in this story were geographically divided, and also in their motives and thought process, the writer makes it easy for the reader to pick up the differences of the two genders. Glaspell displays the differences in the play through the characters and the plot progression. The women at the beginning of the play appear to be unappreciated and dismissed, but these same women

insignificant, Susan Glaspell used her work to shed light on the trials of women and the popularizing idea of feminism. The male dominated society of the late nineteenth century bred an environment that oppressed and disrespected females. Traditional gender roles were deeply engrained in the culture, causing a lack of concern for any effects on women. Men regarded the actions of women and the issues of femininity with very little importance, hence the name of the work. With Trifles, Glaspell establishes