While Nottages play POOF! and Glaspell’s play Trifles both fall under the same section: Trials of Marriage: Plays and share the same theme of domestic violence, they differ very strongly on two points. These points being: believability,how the murder was committed and the type of abuse. In POOF! Nottage’s approach was one of fiction, having the main character Loureen turn her husband into a “huge pile of smoking ashes”(1210). Unlike Trifles we Mrs.Wright murdered her husband by suffocating him, a documented style of murder. They also vary on the believability of why. In POOf! Florence gives the reader Loureen’s primary motive, or assumed motive early in the play when she said, “did that muthafucka hit you again?”(12012). This not only depicts
