Carli Lloyd

Insignificant trifles are found in everyday life, and they are commonly overlooked. In the short play “Trifles,” the women of the story do not overlook the small things in the house, such as the quilting and the birdcage, while the men believe these are unimportant objects that have no relevance to the crime. Throughout their search for evidence and motive, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale discover a birdcage and ponder the importance of this trivial trifle. Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale compare Minnie…

Female Domesticity Bonds the Female Protagonists Together in Trifles Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are the most important characters in the investigation of John Wright’s murder because they solve the case by discovering the dead canary in Susan Glaspell’s play, Trifles. This play is first performed in 1916, during a decade where women are not permitted to vote in the United States until the 1920s. The women are subordinate to the men in the play; Glaspell consequently shows the different social…

In her short story, Cacoethes Scribendi, Catherine Sedgwick uses the pen as a phallic symbol to represent their grip on men. Susan Glaspell, on the other hand, uses a bird and messy kitchen in Jury of Her Peers to symbolize Minnie and her domestic struggle. Both authors describe domestic duties as obstacles in women’s search for their identity or freedom and each text has a victim of these domestic duties. While the women of both text attempt to gain control over the men, for their identity in…

For my creative project I put together a case file based upon the fictional murder of Julia Stoner detailed in “The Speckled Band”, a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I wanted to make the case file look realistic so I used a manilla folder with a picture of the “Stoner twins” attached to the front. Since the case in the story was unsolved in 1982 and Sherlock Holmes solved the case in April of 1983, I included this information on the file. A case number is written on the top of the file to…

Cultural Presentation 3 Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Richland Center, a small Wisconsin farming community, on June 8, 1867 to William and Anna Wright. His family moved frequently during his early years because William was a pastor. They lived in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Iowa before settling in Madison, Wisconsin, when Wright was 12 years old. In 1885, he graduated from the public high school in Madison and his parents got divorced, never to be seen again. Wright decided to enroll in at…

The name of play is significant to the theme of the story. The meaning of the word trifle is something that is trivial or inessential. So, the question is what is the relationship between the play's title and the attitude the men have regarding women and their "space" (kitchen) and their household duties? Well, in the story there was a murder committed by the wife of the of the man who died Mr. &Mrs. Wright. When the neighbor comes by and discovers that Mr. Wright had been murdered he sent for…

Character Analysis; Mrs. Wright In crimes, sometimes is more culpable the victim than the victimizer. In the play Trifles we find a variety of characters, even though it is a short play. All of them are interesting in their ways, but anyone like Mrs. Wright. She was the suspect of the murder of her husband, Mr. Wright. The character of Mrs. Wright have an intense contrast. She sways between being the suspect and being the real victim. What lead to the witness to consider her the suspect of the…

Robert Ivy is a very remarkable man and leader in the architecture industry. He is a man that believes that architectural concepts should be used to make life easier for people in general. He also commits time to working on various projects that are all about improving the quality of life for people. The Executive Vice President and CEO of the American Institute of Architects is the type of individual that is making innovative strides in their industry. Certainly, this was recognized by the…

In Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles written in 1916, reveal about a fascinating murder investigation to find out the real culprit behind it. The setting of Trifles is in a kitchen, the sphere, and everything surrounding shows the women’s lives. Mrs. Wright is suspected of strangling her husband to death. The reader can figure out from this play that the writer is being preoccupied with the culture, which is bound by the sex and gender roles. The title of the play Trifles means something of little…

Trifles by Susanne Glaspell focuses on morality and justice. But if you dig a little deeper into the play it shows the roles of men and women in society during that time, along with the effects of loneliness and revenge. Minnie symbolized a caged bird that is forced to hide her beauty, not to sing, and is isolated from the community. Glaspell used the bird cage to signify that Minnie had very limited space to do as she pleased. Her husband took away her femininity; the pretty dresses she used to…