Eric Bartels, a feature writer for the Portland Tribune, explains what it is like to live with spousal anger in the essay “My Problem with Her Anger.” Bartels starts his essay with him cleaning dishes when he realizes the grill top had been in the sink soaking for an extended period of time. It is then when he finds the white line between men and women. The white line is doing the work when it needs to be done versus putting it off. He says how he has little energy as usual after a work day, but he knows that he should still wash the grills.…
The play Trifles is about a woman named Mrs. Wright and she was accused of murdering her husband. Mr. Wright was found dead in his bed with a rope rung around his neck. Throughout the play the attorney and the sheriff struggle to find evidence…
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.…
It is a "short and sweet" murder mystery play with a comic twist. I thoroughly enjoyed this play, but the diction of the play is sufficient enough that a pictorial view is not only unnecessary but would be destructive to the audience's experience. Much to my dismay, after research I found that there is actually a short 27-minute short drama of Trifles directed by Pamela Walker back in 2009. This was well rated, but I feel like to make this play work into the different mediums the original story had to have a great deal of content added and it loses its true form. A film, in this case, moves too far from the text and focuses too much on impressive visuals than the story.…
What could possibly drive a woman all the way to the point of murder? In “A Rose for Emily,” a short story by William Faulkner, and Trifles, a play by Susan Glaspell, the reader sees two stories in which this happens. In both of these stories, the protagonist is a woman, and both kill the men in their life. In Trifles, Mrs. Wright kills her husband while Emily kills her boyfriend in “A Rose for Emily.” Both of these stories take place from the third person point of view and are re-told in the future after the deaths have taken place.…
Wright was killed in his bed, while sleeping. A rope was wrapped around his neck and he was strangled. Mr. Hale had gone to visit him and Mrs. Hale said he was dead. She seemed a nervous wreck so they put her in an institution.…
The case of John Hossak is incredibly mysterious and is a mystery that was never completely solved. Due to the inherent mystery of the case there were many different books, stories, and plays based of it. One of these is “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell. The plot of this play is essentially the same as the case; however, fundamental differences can be found within the two, as well as trivial details, such as names. Within this report you will find a comparative analysis between “Trifles” and the case of John Hossack.…
Analysis of “Trifles” In the single act play Trifles, written by Susan Glaspell, a foil exists between two female characters Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters. Glaspell allows these characters to act as foils to one another in order to highlight the contrary qualities and characteristics that are present throughout the play. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are foils to one another on the grounds that they differ from each other on their ideals of nineteenth-century feminine roles, opposition to the law, and societal restrictions on women.…
The setting of the kitchen within “Trifles” serves as a representation of the important feminist subject that women are oppressed by men; they are looked down upon when they have an opinion and are especially looked down upon for their female abilities that are made to be inferior compared to the opposite sex. Mr. Hale, a neighboring farmer, and his wife Mrs. Hale; the town sheriff, Henry Peters and his wife Mrs. Peters accompanied by the county attorney George Henderson had all made their way into the Wright’s home to look for evidence that could lead them to John Wright’s murder being solved. Throughout the play Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale had taken the time to psychologically analyze Mrs. Wright’s home and her actions she undertook before she was detained by police all while in the midst of trying to figure out what exactly had happened to her husband. However, the men: Mr. Henderson, Mr. Peters, and Mr. Hale were in search of evidence that was tangible rather than psychological. All three men insisted on criticizing the women for worrying about unimportant things when in fact these “unimportant things” led to both women solving the case.…
The play is about a murder which is most certainly not a trifle but throughout the play the men refer to the women as having trifles “Well, women are used to worrying over trifles” (Hale 1262). The entire time the men are looking for some type of evidence to support their theory that Mrs. Wright had murdered her husband while the women and their “trifles” essentially lead them to the evidence that could convict Mrs. Wright. The women discover a quilt, an empty birdcage and eventually find the dead bird in a box in Mrs. Wright's sewing basket. The bird has been strangled in the same manner as John…
The treatment of women in Susan Glaspell “Trifles” evidently shows that Mrs. Wright killed her husband and Glaspell uses symbolism, setting and irony to convey the readers of this. The setting of the play was mainly in the kitchen of Mr. and Mrs. Wright farmhouse…
When he asks, if the bird has flown, Mrs. Hale lies “we think the cat got it.” The women empathize with Minnie and their perspective impels them to in a sense relive her entire married life rather than simply to research one violent moment. The point of view of Trifles is very critical to this story. The third person point of view used in Trifles does not let us know what really happened but lets the audience figure it out with the characters.…
In the play Trifles by Susan Glaspell, the men are portrayed as condescending towards women. The play centers on the murder of John Wright who died in his bed by strangulation. His wife Minnie has been charged with the crime. When the play begins, the County Attorney, the neighbors Mr. and Mrs. Hale, and the Sheriff and his wife have come to collect things to take to Minnie in jail. In addition, the men want to look around the murder scene upstairs clues.…
He hurries Mr. Hale through his story with, "'Lets talk about that later . . . tell now just what happened when you got to the house'" (1325). Then he ushers the other two men up the stairs, unthinkingly neglecting the crucial evidence…
Trifles is about a wife, Minnie Wright, who is accused of murdering her husband, John Wright. Three men investigate the entire house, while two women investigate the kitchen. The inequalities between genders drives the conflict…