Vengeance In Susan Glaspell's Trifles

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Someone once said “Karma has no menu, you get served what you deserve.” In “Trifles” the need for vengeance is what drove Mrs. Wright to kill her husband. After Mrs. Hale found a dead bird, they believed they found the motive for Mrs. Wright to kill her husband. In “Trifles” Susan Glaspell shows that the need for revenge causes the mind to do unpredictable acts. The need for revenge can drive people to commit gruesome acts. In “Trifles” the main character brutally murdered her husband. She tied a rope around his neck, and strangled him to death in his sleep. This is clearly an act of vengeance because he killed her bird by snapping it’s neck, and Mr. Wright died by being strangled to death with a rope around his neck. That bird was all Mrs.

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