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Although Mrs. Wright does not initially appear capable of such a crime due to her calm demeanor, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale conclude she strangled her husband as evidenced by the crazily sewn quilt patch, the unhinged bird cage, and the mutilated canary. Firstly, the crazily sewn quilt patch suggests that Mrs. Wright was preoccupied with someone or something else. The patch that

Mrs. Wright doesn’t initially appear capable of murder, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale conclude she strangled her husband to death, as evidenced by the crazily sewn quilt patch, the unhinged bird cage, and the mutilated canary corpse, which revealed Mrs. Wright’s motive. A mangled canary wrapped in silk and a broken bird cage door are significant clues that partially reveal Mrs. Wright’s motive. A person must have broken the door, as there were no cats or larger animals in the house according to Mrs

The Canary who got the Cat In Trifles, by Susan Glaspell, the audience is introduced to a character named Minnie Wright. Over the course of the one-act play, they discover that she has wrung her husband’s neck for no immediately apparent reason. However, during the play two characters discover a bird cage and eventually a bird’s corpse. The bird and the cage are symbols of Minnie Wright’s life that provide the clues as to how she could be driven to do something that was so heinous. The canary symbolizes

follow the limiting regimes of what was expected of women at the time. About a year prior to the point in the story, Minnie owned a canary. Prior to her marriage to Mr. Wright, Minnie resembles the bird: pretty, passionate about singing,

Crying over spilled milk is silly, right? Worrying about the little, mundane things is pointless and a waste of time. In Susan Glaspell’s one-act play Trifles, she demonstrates how being sensitive to the subtle details can be vital to solving a mystery. Throughout the one-act play, Glaspell highlights the theme of gender roles through the women’s worries, irony, and symbolism. Glaspell develops the theme of gender roles by what Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters fret about at the crime scene. For instance

lively and social, and used to sing in the choir. However, Mrs. Wright now stays in her home most of the time. The women also say that Mr. Wright was a hard man. He might have made Mrs. Wright give up her friends and her singing. When Mrs. Wright got a canary, Mr. Wright might have strangled it because he did not like its singing. Mrs. Wright might then have murdered Mr. Wright for taking away the one thing she had left. Setting can also be used to develop the theme. The setting in the play was Mrs. Wright’s

Michael Hyatt Dr. Tuttle English 250 25 November 2014 Analytical Response: Trifles The play, “Trifles”, by Susan Glaspell is about the murder of a man by the name of John Wright. The play starts off by the Henry Peters the sheriff and George Henderson the county attorney arrive at Mr. Wright’s house with Mr. Hale, the witness and neighbor of Mr. Wright, along with Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters. They are all at the house to investigate the murder of Mr. Wright. We then are told by Mr. Hale that when

that she uses that term as mrs. Wright used a knot to kill her husband . 11. Point out some moments in the play when the playwright conveys much to the audience without dialogue -when they show how the parchment she was stitching and the way the canary was taken care of 12.How would you sum the plays major theme? - You don’t never get to truly know what a person is capable of doing 13.How does this play , produced in 1916 show its age ? in what ways does this play seem remarkably new - the horrid

She had got the canary a year ago. When her husband killed the canary it was like killing her last connection to her old world. She snapped and started planning his murder, she saw how the bird’s neck was broken and she broke his. Mrs. Peters says that “somebody-wrung- its-neck.” The two other

element of symbolism which were the canary, the bird cage, and the trifle things, the reader is able to identify the themes of the value of life, marriage, and the injustices experienced by women that prevailed throughout the play. One of the ubiquitous concepts found in Glaspell’s play is symbolism. One of the main symbols throughout the play is the