Gender in Susan Glaspell's Play Trifles Essay

Wright (Trifles) are forced to make difficult decisions and face the consequences of their…

Life in Twentieth-century America Society is changing every day. Prior to just over a year ago, it was not legal to marry the person you love if that person was the same gender as their significant other. Disparities between men and women continue to decrease. Our government is increasingly recognizing the need for social change. The selection’s we’ve read in this section have commonly revealed the personal relationships of Americans in the twentieth century. Literary works across the twentieth…

In Willa Cather’s novel entitled My Antonia, she writes about several female characters that, in essence, challenge the stereotypical women’s role in a male-dominated society during the early 1900s. In Trifles, a play written by Susan Glaspell, she depicts her female characters as crafty and bright and not simply inferior intellectually to their male counterparts. Upon closer examination of these two pieces of work, Cather and Glaspell demonstrate that these female characters defy the existing…

the household. This view of the family has been expected by society which sets the rules of behavior which are considered acceptable. This concept of traditional gender roles envelopes the literary works by Susan Glaspell, William Faulkner, and Kate Chopin as their works focus on the roles of woman within the home. In their works, “Trifles,” “A Rose for Emily,” and “The Story of an Hour,” respectively, each woman portrayed is expected to adhere to societal norms of settling down and producing a…