Tensions In Trifles

Mr. and Mrs. Wright’s relationship is connected in both Trifles and Jury of Her Peers by relating to the overall theme of motive. Mr. Hale was the first outside witness to know about Mr. Wright’s death. He decided to make his way to their dark home thinking, “maybe if I went to the house and talked about it before his wife, though I said to Harry that I didn’t know as what his wife wanted made much difference to John” (Glaspell. pg. 980. 1916). Mr. Hale being a male in this time period is seen as one who sees women as just home caretakers. Even with this gender role he notices that something is wrong within the Wright’s relationship. Jury of Her Peers mentions what comes into Mrs. Hale’s mind as she looks at the furniture as another way to

In the play, Mrs. Peters is one of the women who supports in the hiding of the evidence that will evidently prove Mrs. Wright’s motive for murder. The plays revolves around theme that is associated with the title, Trifles, wherein the irony of it is the women meddling in

Trifles Trifles, written in the early 1900’s by Susan Glaspell, is a one-act play illustrating how women can overreact to their own emotions, allowing these emotions to cloud their judgment. This is shown by describing the feelings of two women who are willing to defend a suspect, blame the victim, and go so far as to hide evidence, to protect another woman from being charged with murdering her husband. Mrs. Wright is the suspect in the murder of her husband, who was strangled in his sleep, found with the rope still around his neck. The sheriff and an attorney are examining Mrs. Wrights home for evidence. Mr. Henderson, the attorney, speaking of Mrs. Wright says, “Here’s a nice mess, ..Dirty towels! Not much of a housekeeper,

The Feminist Message in Susan Glaspell's Trifles Susan Glaspell's Trifles can be regarded as a work of feminist literature. The play depicts the life of a woman who has been suppressed, oppressed, and subjugated by a patronizing, patriarchal husband. Mrs. Wright is eventually driven to kill her "hard" (1178) husband who has stifled every last twitch of her identity. Trifles dramatizes the hypocrisy and ingrained discrimination of male-dominated society while simultaneously speaking to the dangers for women who succumb to such hierarchies. Because Mrs. Wright follows the role mapped by her husband and is directed by society's patriarchal expectations, her identity is lost somewhere along the way. However, Mrs. Hale and Mrs.

Angel Parrett Professor Muller English 106/ Drama Essay 15 May 2006 Drama Essay Trifles Trifles, Susan Glaspell’s play written in 1916, reveal concerns of women living in a male dominated society. Glaspell communicates the role that women were expected to play in late 19th century society and the harm that can come of it to women, as well as men. The feminist agenda of Trifles was made obvious, in order to portray the lives of all women who live oppressed under male domination. John and Minnie Wright are two main characters who are never seen; however provide the incident for the play. In this play women are against men, Minnie against her husband, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters against their husband’s, as well as men in general.

Another major issue presented to readers revolves around justice and judgment- pointedly if distinctions like guilty or innocent can even be drawn in such the circumstances of Trifles. An undeniable fact of this play is that the characters: Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale, after solving the mystery, save the murderer from persecution by hiding their findings. Many readers come to question whether the characters are morally right in helping Mrs. Wright, or despite the emotionally just act, are they still wrong in defying the law. Before the subsequent revelations Mrs. Peters, the Sheriff 's wife, appears indifferent to the plight of Mrs. Wright. During one exchange this is quite apparent: “MRS. HALE: I 'd hate to have men coming into my kitchen,

The character development of Mrs. Peters is driven by her sympathy for Mrs. Wright. At the beginning of “Trifles”, Mrs. Peters’ character is portrayed as anxious and insecure. The evidence the women find reveals that Mrs. Wright was trapped in a neglectful marriage. All of the insightful evidence influences Mrs. Peters to disregard her duties as Mr. Peters’ wife, and conceal the evidence from him. Despite Mrs. Peters original compliant and coy personality, the events throughout the play drive her to boldly protest submitting to the male

Response to Trifles by Susan Glaspell The play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell is type of murder mystery that takes place in the early 1900’s. The play begins when the sheriff Mr. Peters and county attorney Mr. Henderson come to attempt to piece together what had happen on the day that Mr. Wright was murder. While investigating the seen of the murder, they are accompanied by the Mr. Hale, Mrs. Hale and Mr. Peters. Mr. Hale had told that Mrs. Wright was acting strange when he found her in the kitchen. After taking information from Mr. Hale, the men leave the women in the kitchen and go upstairs at seen of the murder. The men don’t realize the plot of the murder took place in the kitchen.

MRS. PETERS. We think she was going to—knot it. COUNTY ATTORNEY. Well, that’s interesting, I’m sure. (Glaspell 744). The men in this story are mocking the women, because they do not expect the women to know anything of importance, and to only know their “womanly” duties, which are deemed unimportant. Another similarity between the two works are the changes that the women undergo towards the end of the plays. In “Trifles”, the women, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale, are stuck with the choice of aiding a murderer that was in an abusive relationship, or to tell their husbands what they have found:

Susan Glaspell is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who composed the phenomenal play “Trifles” in 1916. The concept of the play came about while she was reminiscing about the Hossack’s murder case. Glaspell created five central characters to bring the play to life on stage who are George Henderson¬¬—county attorney,

In Susan Glaspell’s Trifles, the gentlemen of the play offer their wives limited roles in helping to solve the murder mystery that has unfolded in front of them, neglecting the fact that the perspective of a lady could very well help solve the case. Mr. Hale and the Sheriff continually mock the viewpoints that their wives can offer, and make no secret about their feelings toward the worth of their wives’ actions and words. After the Sheriff half-jokingly suggests that the County Attorney could take a peek at what Mrs. Peters is going to take in, Mr. Hale dismisses this prospect as ridiculous after sarcastically

The interactions of Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters within the play, Trifles, can be related to the interactions of women who attended consciousness-raising groups during Second Wave Feminism. Firstly, both of the women stay together and away from the men from the very beginning of the play when they are asked if they want to stand next to the fire for warmth (line 3). Additionally, they are meeting in a kitchen, which was considered to be the woman’s realm and so was a place in which women would meet for CR groups. The women also only really speak amongst themselves, stopping their private conversation when the men come back into the kitchen (line 358). Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters discuss the difficultly of maintaining a home, the loneliness of having

Mrs. Wright, a woman longing for the missing piece of happiness within her marriage, is suspected of killing her husband in relation to the canary. Despite the emphasis on the crime, a closer look at the demoralized relationship that Mrs. Hales and Mrs. Peters have with Mrs. Wright reveals that knowing her past life, and having the connection in society, allows them to search for her identity. To determine the reason for Mrs. Wright’s actions, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peter become acquaintances, but through the progression of the story, the information they both have on Mrs. Wright creates a strong investigation on whether she killed her husband. In the play Trifles, written by Susan Glaspell, Mrs. Hales and Mrs. Peters were not always present for Mrs. Wright and now are determined to make up for lost times to reverse the possible conviction she could face.

“Trifles”, based on the murder investigation of John Wright takes place in a farmhouse. The play follows the murder investigation of John Wright as a group of people enters the farmhouse, led by county attorney George Henderson, followed by local sheriff Henry Peters, his wife Mrs. Peters, and neighbor of the Wrights, Mr. and Mrs. Hale. As the play began, Mr. Hale describe the moment he discovered the murder of John Wright. According to him, when he visited the house on the previous day, he found Mrs. Wright behaving in an unusual manner, as she tells him that her husband is hung dead upstairs. The men proceed to the scene where John Wright was found dead, while the women remain downstairs to pick up few things for Mrs. Wright. While the men

“Well, women are used to worrying over trifles,” Mr. Hale, a character in the play, Trifles, causally points out alluding that women lack the common sense to worry about the important things in life (1389). Trifles was written by Susan Glaspell in 1916 and first performed on August 9,