Argumentative Essay Murder by strangulation! Occurs in a play called Trifles by Susan Glaspell. This play takes place in the the 1920s and is about the homicide of a farmer named John Wright who was strangled in his sleep with a rope. Minnie Wright his wife is the prime suspect of the case and is being detained at the jail. The sheriff of the town Henry Peters, his wife Mrs. Peters, the neighbor Mrs. Hale, her husband Mr. Hale and the county attorney George Henderson all go up to the house the day after Minnie is thrown in jail. The sheriff and the county attorney are there to establish a motive as to why Minnie would do this and the two women that came along with them are there to get a few personal belongings for the imprisoned Minnie. While the women are doing this for Minnie they come across evidence that
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That brings us to the overall question, were Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters justified in withholding evidence? The answer is no they were not justified and it will be proven through Minnie’s psychological status, the evidence against her and the legal system. From the beginning of the play Minnie seems mentally unstable because of Mr. Hale’s account of talking to Minnie and the dialogue between them; “’I want to see John’” and then she—laughed” (Glaspell 764). This proves she is unstable because it is found out a few lines later that her husband is dead and she tells Mr. Hale straight forward that her husband is dead with no remorse or feeling displayed on her face. The opposition could say that the two women were justified because they felt sympathy for Minnie because of her stingy, cold husband that changed her from lightheartedness and the dead canary they found that was seen as like a child to her because she did not have children. Mr. wright changed Minnie from her choir singing younger self by isolating her from the outside world, which caused her
That brings us to the overall question, were Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters justified in withholding evidence? The answer is no they were not justified and it will be proven through Minnie’s psychological status, the evidence against her and the legal system. From the beginning of the play Minnie seems mentally unstable because of Mr. Hale’s account of talking to Minnie and the dialogue between them; “’I want to see John’” and then she—laughed” (Glaspell 764). This proves she is unstable because it is found out a few lines later that her husband is dead and she tells Mr. Hale straight forward that her husband is dead with no remorse or feeling displayed on her face. The opposition could say that the two women were justified because they felt sympathy for Minnie because of her stingy, cold husband that changed her from lightheartedness and the dead canary they found that was seen as like a child to her because she did not have children. Mr. wright changed Minnie from her choir singing younger self by isolating her from the outside world, which caused her