Susan Glaspell Wrote Trifles to open a controversial subject that was over looked by society during the 1900s; the repression of women, which is depicted throughout the play. Glaspell use of stereotypes, and symbols to distinguish the roles of genders during the period the play was written in. The female characters in the Trifles are the main victims to stereotypical implication of how society viewed women. The drama shows that women were seen as inferior and even a 2nd class citizens compared to the men. Female roles were to be stay at home be wives, do chores and be mothers; women did not have many roles in in giving opines at home or in society because they were uneducated and emotionally week. Through the lines of the male characters the
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Write getting a party line with him if Mr. Write’s wife was there. He continues to say “Though I said to Harry that I didn’t know as what his wife, wanted made much difference to John.”(Glaspell 923) “Well, can you beat the women! Held for murder and worryin’ about her preserves.”(Glaspell 924) The county attorney George Henderson remarks to insult Mrs. Write the accused murderer of her husband Mr. John Write. Accompanied by Lewis Hale’s line “Well, woman are used to worrying over Trifles.”(Glaspell 925) implying that women are too dumb to understand the severity of situation and are more interested in house work like preserving jam. When Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters begin interpreting the found objects in to clues they begin to connect to Mrs. Write. Emotional …show more content…
The bird is the more obvious simple in the drama. Mrs. Hale compares the bird to Minnie Foster before she married Mr. Write, she used to sing, was beautiful, the bird and she were both taped in their home. Corresponding to the isolation that woman were to stay home and take care of the home and their husband. The lack of a party line or telephone also adds to the idea that Mrs. Write had communication to the outside world. The jars or jelly were one of the items aske by Mrs. Write to be looked after as by Latifa Ismael Jabboury in her paper “As Minnie’s jars were in need for heat, they may symbolize to her life” (Jabboury 8) the simple show that even though the house work to men seams to a trifles to women they were the fruits of their work and have pride in
Write getting a party line with him if Mr. Write’s wife was there. He continues to say “Though I said to Harry that I didn’t know as what his wife, wanted made much difference to John.”(Glaspell 923) “Well, can you beat the women! Held for murder and worryin’ about her preserves.”(Glaspell 924) The county attorney George Henderson remarks to insult Mrs. Write the accused murderer of her husband Mr. John Write. Accompanied by Lewis Hale’s line “Well, woman are used to worrying over Trifles.”(Glaspell 925) implying that women are too dumb to understand the severity of situation and are more interested in house work like preserving jam. When Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters begin interpreting the found objects in to clues they begin to connect to Mrs. Write. Emotional …show more content…
The bird is the more obvious simple in the drama. Mrs. Hale compares the bird to Minnie Foster before she married Mr. Write, she used to sing, was beautiful, the bird and she were both taped in their home. Corresponding to the isolation that woman were to stay home and take care of the home and their husband. The lack of a party line or telephone also adds to the idea that Mrs. Write had communication to the outside world. The jars or jelly were one of the items aske by Mrs. Write to be looked after as by Latifa Ismael Jabboury in her paper “As Minnie’s jars were in need for heat, they may symbolize to her life” (Jabboury 8) the simple show that even though the house work to men seams to a trifles to women they were the fruits of their work and have pride in