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    what happens, and to call into question the stereotypes that women are innocent, simple-minded, and caring people. When Mrs. Wright is accused of murdering her husband, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters feel guilt for never befriending the lonely lady, and both take action to ensure she will not be convicted. Even though the ladies are able to find evidence to be sure that Mrs. Wright was the murderer, they take action to ensure that she will be found innocent and released from jail. In this way, we are able

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    The Tragedy of Minne Foster In Dickson County, Iowa, a woman named Minnie Wright murdered her husband John Wright by strangling him with a rope around his neck. As Minnie sits in jail waiting for trial, her neighbors, the sheriff and his wife, and the county attorney all investigates the crime scene at her house to develop a better understanding of who killed Mr.Wright and why. Living isolated from everyone else, the Wright’s home looks lonesome, is down in a hollow, and has lonesome

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    In “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell, Minnie Foster Wright is the prime suspect of her husband’s murder; she breaks the bond of marriage through her own efforts simply because she no longer wishes to have a life with John Wright. She becomes so weary from her plight that she sees no other way out except to kill her husband. A neighbor, Mr. Hale, finds the freshly widowed wife sitting in her rocking chair pleating her apron the morning after her husband’s murder. Without remorse, Ms. Minnie

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    the name Mrs. Wright being accused of her husband’s death. Mrs. Wright was a very lonely woman who didn’t have much visitors and also didn’t have any children. George Henderson was the court attorney asking questions to figure out what had occurred in the Wright home. He was accompanied by the Henry Peters and Lewis Hale. Henry Peters was the sheriff and Lewis Hale was a farmer that lived in the area. They were questioning Mr. Hale because he was the first person to know that John Wright was dead. Mrs

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    of Mrs. Wright. The house didn't have a telephone because when Mr. Hale asked if Mr. Wright would want to join him in paying for a party line, Wright's reply was "folks talk too much anyway and all he wanted was peace and quiet." When Mr. Hale found Mrs. Wright, she was sitting in her rocking chair "looking queer, as if she didn't know what she was going to do next." Hale then went upstairs and discovered Wright's body lying in bed, a rope tied around his neck. Wright had been

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    “Trifles” is a story about two women accompanying their husbands on a trip to the house of Mrs Wright, who is accused of murdering her husband. After the men head upstairs to look for evidence the women start talking and as they do they come across a beaten up bird cage and a pretty box. Within the box, the women find a dead bird. Its fragile neck had been snapped soon after, the women come to conclusion that Mrs Wright sought to get revenge on her husband for killing the bird and everything else he did to

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    Have you ever wondered what is going on in someone else’s life? Mrs. Wright is the wife of the local farmer Mr. Wright. Her original name was Minnie Foster and she loved to sing and always seemed to be very happy with her life. Then things changed when she married John Wright. She became unhappy and isolated herself from others. Mrs. Wright’s relationship with her husband was terrible because he was always down on her and negative towards her everything she had ever loved. Needless to say, all of

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    “A jury of her Peers” and Trifles are works of literature. In these works, they depict the murder of Mr. Wright. The men accuse Mrs. Wright to the murder of her husband, however are they are trying to find evidence to prove this. Both works are loosely based on the murder of John Hossack, which Glaspell reported on while working as a news journalist for the Des Moines Daily News. Hossack's wife, Margaret, was accused of killing her husband. However, Margaret argued that an intruder had killed John

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    Trifles is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell. It was first performed by the Provincetown Players at the Wharf Theatre in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on August 8, 1916. In the original performance, Glaspell played the role of Mrs. Hale. The play is frequently anthologized in American literature textbooks. The play was soon followed by the short story, "A Jury of Her Peers", also written by Glaspell, which carries the same characters and plotline. Another show that’s has the same story line is “how

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    One of the biggest similarity between the two is that they were both built within sources of water. Fallingwater being built on small creek, suspended over a waterfall. This crude earthiness is counterpointed by the startling fine alabaster white stucco work of the famous interiors. Then this melts water from the 'Snowy Mountains' is drawn across an arched vault at the eastern tip of the Torre del Agua, a large water tower, and channeled through the citadel via a complex system of conduits and water

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