Quilt In Susan Glaspell's Trifles

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Mrs. Wright's creepy farmhouse in the play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell is the home of a very dark mystery. A man by the name of Mr. Wright, who was the husband of Mrs. Wright, is found dead in his bed. The sheriff and a detective investigate the crime scene and integrate Mrs. Wright but she said that he was strangled in his sleep by a rope. As the women look around the house they see that the house is full of clues and hints as to what happened to Mr. Wright, such as a towel left on the counter, a loaf of moldy bread sitting outside the bread box, an unfinished quilt that was made sloppily and a very interestingly placed dead bird in a box by Mrs. Wright's knitting. The towel left on the counter, the moldy bread and the unfinished quilt all

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