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    Trifles by Susan Glaspell is a tragic mysterious drama that has to deal with a murderous wife, and a couple of friends who cover up her tracks. Throughout the story Glaspell gives clues to the reader to help him or her figure out what will happen in the end. Glaspell Wrote Trifles in 1916, according to the year it is safe to assume that this mysterious short story was placed in a time around the 1910’s setting. The clues she leaves, such as the quilting square, the bird, the reflections in the setting

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    1) Although I had a hard time visualizing Trifles in my head, it still an exciting and fascinating play. The story is unpredictable, short and easy to understand. It think it is the woman that killed her husband because he was putting her down whenever he could. Also, I concluded that the woman killed her husband because he killed her only friend in the house, the canary. Also, the author did not give specific details about any potential enemy that the man had. 2) Although, I like to read all types

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    Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles” is a short drama that plays out the events of a murder mystery concerning the death of John Wright. Two women, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peter, along with a Sheriff and County Attorney inspect the cold empty farmhouse of the now deceased John Wright for any clues or evidence that can help them discover who the murder is. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters straighten out and organizes Mrs. Wright’s belongings in the kitchen only to discover evidence that implies Mrs. Wright murdered her

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    In the play Trifles, by Susan Glaspell, the plot develops through action. As soon as the play begins readers and viewers are introduced to the county attorney, the sheriff, and Mr. Hale. Due to the fact that these three men discuss the case and death of Mr. Wright quite a bit, the audience is made to believe that they are the main characters of the play. However; the true protagonists of the play are revealed as soon as the men departure from the kitchen and leave the characters Mrs. Peters and Mrs

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    In “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell, the men completely dismiss the isolation of a typical midwestern farm as Mrs. Wright’s motive for killing her husband. The men were focused on finding an obvious motive, such as a heated argument or financial issue. The men disregard that fact that Mrs. Wright is forced to be home all day tending to chores in a quiet household. They fail to realize that loneliness can push someone over the edge. Mrs. Wright lives further away from everyone and her house can’t be seen

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    In the group that I was in our claim was that the role of irony in “Trifles draws attention to specific actions and dialogues among the characters, which groups the women and men into respective groups, each thinking they were an “insider” and the other was an “outsider”. Today, many social interactions such as liking commenting and using emoji’s on Facebook may serve different meanings, which often hints to “inside-joking” where only the “insiders” are privileged with the information to appreciate

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    personal, testimonial, and observed evidence, explain how Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters come to empathize and sympathize with Mrs. Wright. Mrs. Hale, Mrs. Peters took important roles on Mrs. Wright’s situation. They had many incidents each other in Trifles article. There are three topics explain how Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters empathize and sympathize with Mrs. Wright. They are Revenge, Empathy and protection, and Domesticity. After Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale find the dead canary in Mrs. Wright's basket

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    Susan Glaspell’s story “Trifles” is based on a true story many decades ago when women were treated as second class citizens. This story focuses on two women in the shadows of men who see their sex as superior and in doing so, miss the most important parts of their investigation. Glaspell uses space to show the bond that is slowly created between these two women that allow them to justify not reporting the evidence to the sexist males who essentially drop the ball because of their lack of empathy

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    of the few things that is common in 19th century. In this analysis, deconstructing each character where one can see how men and women are during that era, and how, at the end of the day, women win, and that racism can be ironic. In Glaspell’s “Trifles”, readers can see to obvious – oppression towards women. John Wright is strangled to death with a rope in his gloomy and creepy farmhouse. The main suspect? His wife, Mrs. Wright. Although Mrs. Wright didn’t have much dialogue going on in this story

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    Susan Glaspell’s Trifles Essay

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    The first reading I enjoyed was Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles”. The main character in the plat is a sheriff, his wife, the county attorney, and Mr. and Mrs. Hale. The opening scene is all of them in John Wright’s kitchen. Mr. Hale tells the sheriff and attorney how he a visited the house on the day before day and Mrs. Wright greeted him but her demeanor was little suspicions. She told him that her husband was upstairs dead. She says she was asleep when someone choked her husband to death. All the

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