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Similarly, Glaspell attempts to incite critical thought among her readership regarding the role of gender in determining a person’s worth. The two women in “Trifles” are shown to be both morally and intellectually superior to the men in the story, though they are derided for their method of investigation (Glaspell 748). This form of derision and lack of respect is indicative of the social climate at the time. Angel writes, “The women in the story start from different facts and reach different moral and legal conclusions than the men in the story. The men’s view of fact and law reflect our traditional legal system, which men created and continue to dominate” (Angel 779). Therefore, Glaspell not only uses the irony of the women’s superior observance to showcase women’s equality to men, but she also uses it as a method of critiquing the sociopolitical order of her day. Ergo, both Glaspell and Loy find commonality in their use of smaller gender related topics to address broader issues relating to feminist concerns.

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.

Susan Glaspell’s one-act play “Trifles” was written in 1916. It was written based on real events. When Glaspell was a reporter, she covered a murder case in a small town in Iowa. Later, she wrote this short play which was inspired by her investigation and what she observed. Glaspell used irony, symbolism, and setting in her creation of the authentic American drama, “Trifles”, to express life for women in a male-dominated society in the early nineteen hundreds.

“Trifles” by Susan Glaspell is situated in 1916 and is a one act play which incorporates essential components of what the women’s rights movement was about. After moving on from Iowa’s Drake University in 1899, Glaspell commenced her writing vocation of composing short stories and books. The play from Glaspell recounts the story of a homicide mystery involving the married couple of Mrs. Wright (Minnie) and her spouse, the murder victim, John Wright; this story also incorporates the outlook of society towards women being viewed as beneath men. “Trifles” demonstrates the unfair mentality regularly acknowledged among men towards women in 1916. In addition, it showcases the big role comradery plays for women in becoming equal represented

“You’re Convinced there was nothing important here…Nothing that would—point to any motive?” (Glaspell, pg. 5, 1908). In 1916, Glaspell worked for Des Moines daily news as a reporter where she later met her husband George Cook who was a play director. Together they wrote and produced plays, two of which are Trifles and Jury of Her Peers which are based off a crime scene she encountered while being a reporter. Glaspell’s plays are on the feminist side focusing on the roles women are forced to play in society and their relationships with men. Motive is the overall theme found in both versions of Glaspell’s story and is evidenced through the Wright’s relationship, the anger portrayed in various ways, and finally, regret found in Mrs. Wright.

“Trifles” is a perplexing drama that begins with a murder in a midwestern farmhouse. John Wright is found dead with a knot tied perfectly around his neck. In this one act play, Susan Glaspell, reveals the truth of women's suffrage during the early twentieth century. Women are restricted when it comes to individual rights. Without being able to vote, be a part of a jury, and working mostly out of their home, women have the unfair disadvantage in life. “Trifles” shows the treatment women undergo. The main theme of “Trifles” is the contrast of genders, stereotypes, and how view each other’s role.

Between December 1st and 2nd 1900, John Hossack (a farmer from Warren County, Iowa) was murdered with an ax by his wife while in bed (Iowa Cold Cases, Inc). This play was inspired by the true story of Margaret Hossack, an Iowa farm wife who was charged with the murder of her husband John. One of the reporters, Susan Glaspell, decided to write a literary version of this investigation and “Trifles” came to be. Susan Glaspell is a feminist writer from Davenport, Iowa who started off writing for a newspaper called Des Moines Daily News. Later on in her literary career she left the journalism industry and founded a theatrical organization called ‘Provincetown Players’ on Cape Cod, Massachusetts (Waterman). In Trifles, Susan Glaspell exposes women’s suffrage through a feminist voice by covering issues regarding female oppression and patriarchal domination and symbolically illustrating the 19th century married woman as a caged bird.

The play ?Trifles?, by Susan Glaspell , is an examination of the different levels of early 1900?s mid-western farming society?s attitudes towards women and equality. The obvious theme in this story is men discounting women?s intelligence and their ability to play a man?s role, as detectives, in the story. A less apparent theme is the empathy the women in the plot find for each other. Looking at the play from this perspective we see a distinct set of characters, a plot, and a final act of sacrifice.

Women in the early 1900’s weren’t taken very seriously, they were mainly expected to keep the house tidy and to remain loyal to their husbands. A comparison of Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles” and the short story “A Jury of Her Peers” portray the similarities and differences between the plots at the

Susan Glaspell wrote Trifles in 1916 and later made a short story out of it. They both explain the plot of Minnie who is accused of murdering her husband. He is found dead in bed with a rope around his neck. Three men come to Minnie’s house to carry out an investigation of the murder of her husband. Due to the year the story takes place in, women didn’t have the rights they do today. This plays a significant role in the two stories as it depicts how men looked at women. A comparison of “Trifles” and “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell will explain the changes of the dialog, plot, and how they are explained.

Susan Keating Glaspell was an American playwright, novelist, journalist and actress. She was born July 1, 1876, in Davenport, Iowa. To most readers Susan Glaspell is still known primarily as the author of Trifles, the frequently anthologized, classic feminist play about two women’s secret discovery of a wife’s murder of her husband, or the short-story “A Jury of Her Peers,” a re-writing of that piece. “Trifles” and “A Jury of Her Peers” are extremely similar to one another in almost every respect. Much of the dialogue is lifted directly from the play and placed into the short story. Additionally, all of the plot points are the same, with some insignificant differences. An analysis on Susan Glaspell’s play, “Trifles” and her short story, “A Jury of Her Peers” compares the differences of

Susan Glaspell uses a variety of symbols in her play to demonstrate the stereotypical view and treatment of women by men during the start of the twentieth century. She intricately portrays the female characters in her story as intelligent, but passive due to the fact that males dismiss their ideas and conversations as unimportant. The play, Trifles, uses multiple symbols to show how men fail to recognize the intelligence of women, and oppress the feminists’ way of thinking throughout society.

As a strong feminist , susan glaspell wrote”trifles” and then translated it to a story called”A Jury of Her Peers”. Both writings tell a story about a man. John wright, that was mysteriously murdered in his sleep. The men in the story are trying to solve the mystery, but look down on the women and their opinions. The women are the ones that end up finding most of the mystery solving clues, and susan glaspell hides many messages in the writing. These works express glaspell’s view of the way women were treated at the turn of the century. Although glaspell is an acclaimed feminist, her story does not contain the traditional feminist views of equal rights. The play and short story are written very alike but also changes have been made. Glaspell's play and story “trifles” and “A Jury of her peers” can be compared and contrasted from the Characterization and opening, fruit that has

The short story and the play are both written by Susan Glaspell. She wrote two different forms of literature that have the same plot, setting and characters. Susan Glaspell first wrote Trifles and then later on translated in to a short story “A Jury of Her Peers.” Her writing express how she viewed of how the women were treated at the turn of the century. When trifles was first written in 1916 it was a briefer and more mood evoking production of Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters discovery of Minnie’s motive for murder. The stories based on the murder of John Hossac. The compare and contrast between “Trifles” and “A Jury of Her Peers” they are extremely similar to one another in almost everything, but they also have different changes throughout the

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.