Susan Glaspell’s Trifles is a controversial play: controversial because, first time reader get a different idea about the play each time. Some come to the conclusion that this play is empowering for women because of its ending and how the women in the story choose and decided to keep information from the men. Other feel that this story goes in a total opposite direction, that the story shows a narrative where women are left feeling powerless and nothing but a victim of a patriarchal society.
Many scholars make the case that this story is empowering for women, for instance: Suzy Clarkson says that “Their final refuse to speak rings with power of intention and choice” (Silent Justice in a different Key: Glaspell’s “Trifles”, 284.) Leonard Mustazza, …show more content…
Many scholars praise this part of the story as the ultimate gesture of women power. For instance Suzy Clarkson says that “Their final refuse to speak rings with power of intention and choice”, “Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters ultimately find power in being devaluated”. (Silent Justice in a different Key: Glaspell’s “Trifles”, 284.) Leonard Mustazza, also, argues the same point, that “Trifles” “Mrs. Peters emerges as an individual distinct from her role as sheriff’s wife.” The women decide to hide the evidence from the men because they empathize with Mrs. Wright, and they relate to her just because they have the same gender and in this patriarchal society thus they also share the same place in society. At first sight this choice seems to be a great instance of women sticking up other women. However, they are protecting a murdered. The women relate to Mrs. Wright just because she is a women, let us not forget that Mrs. Wright is a character that only represents bad attributes: a murdered, a helpless victim, a weak-spirted soul, a character that gave up dreams of singing, a character that cannot maintain a clean kitchen, even worse, a character that must clean, cook and serve an ungrateful man. In this story bad women are defending bad
Many scholars make the case that this story is empowering for women, for instance: Suzy Clarkson says that “Their final refuse to speak rings with power of intention and choice” (Silent Justice in a different Key: Glaspell’s “Trifles”, 284.) Leonard Mustazza, …show more content…
Many scholars praise this part of the story as the ultimate gesture of women power. For instance Suzy Clarkson says that “Their final refuse to speak rings with power of intention and choice”, “Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters ultimately find power in being devaluated”. (Silent Justice in a different Key: Glaspell’s “Trifles”, 284.) Leonard Mustazza, also, argues the same point, that “Trifles” “Mrs. Peters emerges as an individual distinct from her role as sheriff’s wife.” The women decide to hide the evidence from the men because they empathize with Mrs. Wright, and they relate to her just because they have the same gender and in this patriarchal society thus they also share the same place in society. At first sight this choice seems to be a great instance of women sticking up other women. However, they are protecting a murdered. The women relate to Mrs. Wright just because she is a women, let us not forget that Mrs. Wright is a character that only represents bad attributes: a murdered, a helpless victim, a weak-spirted soul, a character that gave up dreams of singing, a character that cannot maintain a clean kitchen, even worse, a character that must clean, cook and serve an ungrateful man. In this story bad women are defending bad