Women are important in our society. Every woman has her own job or duty in this current society in which men are still the “stronger gender”. In the early days women were seen only as wives who were intended to clean, cook, and take care of the kids, as we can interpret in the short play “Trifles.” A farmer called John Wright has been murdered. While he lay asleep in the middle of the night, someone strung a rope around his neck. And that someone might have been his wife Minnie Wright. Women in most societies were denied some of the legal and political rights according to men. Women were treated like they were property of men, with no voice about their own fate. In contrary, changes in the family began when women wanted more from life. The
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Also the ways how females’ gender work in different societies.
Susan Glaspell in her play “Trifles” points out the relationships between husbands and wives, principally a marriage that concluded in murder. Sheriff Peters, Mrs. Peters, Hale, Mrs. Hale and the County Attorney Henderson met together in the Wright’s farmhouse examining this case and trying to get some clues that could lead them to find the person that killed John Wright. Some circumstances such as the men dismissing women’s things as insignificant and how they laughed at women, lead the women to stand together. Both Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters showed their support to Mrs. Wright, because the men were assuming that she was guilty for the fact that she walked away. They tried to prove this, rather than try to understand her situation and her feelings, those little details than women were able to see and men not. This shows the empathy the women feel for each other. At the moment they found an empty birdcage started to wonder what happened to the bird. After a long talk and searching the women found the bird inside a box also strangled. Mrs. Hale decided to hide the dead bird in her coat pocket because she did not want to share that evidence with the …show more content…
Back to my country I remember an expression that I can attach to Trifles “the women did not have neither voice nor vote” but a strong force to cover each with the other. In that society was hard for the men believe in any women’s words. Women did not have the opportunity to choose or to make an opinion but “women are used to worrying over trifles” (Glaspell, p.982) which tells me that they were able to see things that men cannot see. Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale knew that their conclusion will not be believable for their respective husbands for that reason they decided to cover Mrs. Wright. What she did to her husband was the same to what she did to the bird, but the women in the play understood why Mrs. Wright did that and they agreed to her. In some ways I can refer that to fear to speak up. Conversely, the role of women in society has been greatly overseen in the last few decades but now it is coming to a more positive perspective. The society where in Intersecting Lives is happening and for me the current nowadays the detective Olivia as soon she knew what happened with those female inmates she went further into all evidence and never gave up until arrest Mr. Munson. “It’s still the word of a CO versus a black single mother with a drug problem and prison record” (Wolf, intersecting lives), when a CO became a criminal can be hard to prosecute because they have a lot of
Also the ways how females’ gender work in different societies.
Susan Glaspell in her play “Trifles” points out the relationships between husbands and wives, principally a marriage that concluded in murder. Sheriff Peters, Mrs. Peters, Hale, Mrs. Hale and the County Attorney Henderson met together in the Wright’s farmhouse examining this case and trying to get some clues that could lead them to find the person that killed John Wright. Some circumstances such as the men dismissing women’s things as insignificant and how they laughed at women, lead the women to stand together. Both Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters showed their support to Mrs. Wright, because the men were assuming that she was guilty for the fact that she walked away. They tried to prove this, rather than try to understand her situation and her feelings, those little details than women were able to see and men not. This shows the empathy the women feel for each other. At the moment they found an empty birdcage started to wonder what happened to the bird. After a long talk and searching the women found the bird inside a box also strangled. Mrs. Hale decided to hide the dead bird in her coat pocket because she did not want to share that evidence with the …show more content…
Back to my country I remember an expression that I can attach to Trifles “the women did not have neither voice nor vote” but a strong force to cover each with the other. In that society was hard for the men believe in any women’s words. Women did not have the opportunity to choose or to make an opinion but “women are used to worrying over trifles” (Glaspell, p.982) which tells me that they were able to see things that men cannot see. Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale knew that their conclusion will not be believable for their respective husbands for that reason they decided to cover Mrs. Wright. What she did to her husband was the same to what she did to the bird, but the women in the play understood why Mrs. Wright did that and they agreed to her. In some ways I can refer that to fear to speak up. Conversely, the role of women in society has been greatly overseen in the last few decades but now it is coming to a more positive perspective. The society where in Intersecting Lives is happening and for me the current nowadays the detective Olivia as soon she knew what happened with those female inmates she went further into all evidence and never gave up until arrest Mr. Munson. “It’s still the word of a CO versus a black single mother with a drug problem and prison record” (Wolf, intersecting lives), when a CO became a criminal can be hard to prosecute because they have a lot of