Susan Buffett

The play “Trifles” written by Susan Glaspell is about John Wright who was murdered. When the play begins the county attorney, sheriff, and Mr. Hale are all at Mr. Wright’s home to search for evidence for who murdered him. The two women that are in the poem are Mrs. Peters who is the sheriff's wife, and Mr. Hale’s wife, Mrs. Hale. Minnie Wright is the suspect in Mr. Wright’s case, but they are searching for answers to know exactly what happened. While the men are trying to solve the crime their wives

In Susan Glaspell’s short story “A Jury of Her Peers”, the women, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, were able to outsmart the men in the investigation of Mr. Wright’s death by discovering the motive for the murder. Minnie Wright is Mr. Wright’s wife and she is the one who murdered him by strangling him in a room upstairs. The woman in the story, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, figured out the Mrs. Wright killed her husband because there was evidence and hints around the kitchen. The men that came to solve the

In the early morning of August 4th, 1892 Andrew and Abby Borden were found murdered and mutilated in there home in Fall River, Massachusetts. Their daughter, Lizzie Borden was the suspect in these murders and mutilations. She was arrested 7 days after the murders on August 11th, 1892. However, a jury found her not guilty after she went to trial. Her trial, which started 10 months after the murders, was lead by what towns’ people called the “dream team” of lawyers. The jury had 12 men on it that

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 their trifle things find the motive. Mrs. Peters is a dynamic character that sees the most change, from siding with the men and making excuses for them to hiding the cutting piece of evidence for the case, being the wife of the

Trifles Comparison The audio and visual representations of Trifles captured the main aspects the play. During the first scene, Glaspell establishes the plot, setting, and characters. As a result, the first scene, which presents the murder of John, Mrs. Wright husband, is a vital aspect of the play. The first scene begins with the Sheriff, George Henderson, who is the attorney, Lewis and Martha Hale, and the Sheriff’s wife. All the characters are gathered in Mrs. Wright's living room discussing

The title of the play refers to the concerns of the women in the play, which the men consider to be only “trifles.” This includes such things as the canning jars of fruit that Minnie Wright is concerned about despite being held for murder, as well as the quilt and other items that Minnie asks to have brought to her at the jail. Trifles symbolize the importance of the topics and items that concern the women in the story, as these concerns provide the women with the insight to understand the motive

“Trifles” is a play about a woman who loses her freedom once she is married. Mrs. Wright was once a young woman who was extremely happy and could sing. As soon as she married Mr. Wright, everything went downhill from there. She lost her spark that made Mrs. Wright who she is. The last straw that led to Mr. Wright’s murder was killing Mrs. Wright’s bird, who could have possibly reminded her of herself when she was cheerful and free. The definition of trifles is giving someone or something very little

Susan Glaspell in the play Trifles, utilizes a sense of irony and contrasting character development to depict the ineptitude of prevalent stereotyping of women in the early 1900’s. The plot of Trifles is the attempt to discover evidence supporting the murder of John Wright by his wife. The scene begins as the sheriff, Henry Peters and his wife, the County Attorney, and the witness, Mr. Hale and his wife, enter the murdered victims home in search of evidence concerning the murder. Through the development

Imagine this; you walk in to a room and find out that there is someone dead upstairs and nothing is being down about it and there are so many questions to be asked. How could that make a person feel? Susan Glaspell wrote a drama called “Trifles” and it revolves around a murder scene. As the men were thinking they could get all their information while just analyzing where the suspect was found murdered, when the women had a whole different theory. The women were going through different things with

Memes, Modes, and Agency in Networked Public Address While much of networked rhetorical production focuses on the digital recreation of traditional media (e.g. Netflix, online news, video chat), a variety of rhetorical forms have emerged that are unique to the web (e.g. blogs, message boards, and chatrooms). Of these forms, digital memes stand out as a communitive technology that defines networked rhetorical styles, and exemplifies the conundrum behind Warnick’s call to refigure ethos for networked