Male-Female Relationships In Trifles Essay

To them it is of little importance as they say, “’Nothing here but kitchen things’” (1326). Instead of looking at things of the wife, who is in custody, they search all through John’s bed, barn, and other male things for evidence. The women regard these men, between themselves, as "'snooping around and criticizing'" (1327) and as sarcastic. Everywhere it is apparent how condescending the men are as well. Mrs. Hale and, especially, Mrs. Peters are underestimated. Mr. Peters, the sheriff, is of the opinion that "'anything Mrs. Peters does'll be alright,'" and later the attorney concurs, "'Mrs. Peters doesn't need supervising.'" (1327,…

Glaspell’s work Trifles, other works during the time were also keying in on the issue of injustice to women within the legal system. “Kerfol” written by Edith Warton and another work by Susan Glaspell, the short story “A Jury of Her Peers”, were also attacking the inequality of fairness under the law for women. “Trifles depicts an unequal trial of strength between the male prosecution story and the female defence story, in which the female protagonists hide the emerging defence story to avoid…

rally more to their cause, women used not only organized protests but employed literature to speak out. Written during this time period, “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Trifles” are works that portray women as passive timid beings that should listen to their counterparts. These two pieces were composed to expose the outrageous manner in which women were regarded. On the other hand, “Canceled” is a contemporary piece which depicts the female character as a…

Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artists explored the ways in which men renegotiated their relationship with women in response to women’s demand for greater equality. Caillebotte’s two paintings -- Interior and Young Man at His Window—suggest that men responded by encouraging women’s return to their traditional gender roles. Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles” present women who are fully men’s intellectual equals, but it suggests that only their solidarity would ensure justice in a men’s…

Susan Glaspell is an American playwright and author who lived in the early twentieth century. When the role of women was skewed and not even nearly equal to that of men in literature, her art reflected her society and her life. Susan wrote many plays, but one that will be the sole means of discussion for this paper is Glaspell's, Trifles(a short play she wrote in ten days), which she produced in 1916. In Trifles, Glaspell shows how women were mainly given the reproductive role which confined…

The play “Trifles” was written by playwright and actress, Susan Glaspell, and was first performed by the Provincetown Players at the Wharf Theatre in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on August 8, 1916. The setting of the play is in the house of Mr. and Mrs. Wright and opens with three men and two women entering it. There is uncompleted housework everywhere and it is obvious that someone left in a hurry or was taken unexpectedly. Among the three men are one of Mr. Wright’s neighbors, Mr. Hale, the…

Wright differently. The men see the Wright's relationship from an outsider's stance; they know Mr. Wright to be a hard man, but have no cause to believe he was out of line in his treatment of his wife. Thus, they don't even consider Mrs. Wright's living conditions or spousal abuse as a motive. Probably, if abuse were even considered as a motive, it would be thrown out in the sexist farm society of this play. Meanwhile, the women look at Mrs. Wright's plight and what it must have been like…

Feminist Analysis of “Trifles” Set around the scene of a murder, Susan Glaspell’s twentieth century play “Trifles” is an early feminist drama that explores the gender roles set in place by society, especially in the time period written. The plot revolves around the case of a women, Mrs. Wright, who has killed her husband, John Wright. While male characters are trying to find motive behind the murder, it is actually their wives, who are belittled throughout the play, that solve the case but…

Feminist Criticism Essay Feminist literature criticism is the analyses of stories mostly through the female’s perspective, and their own feminist theories of how women are portray. Through feminist literature women find that they are depicted as being inferior to men, having less power, having no say, being weaker, and there is a lot of inequality between males and females. Two stories that displays these negative look on women are The Story of an Hour and Trifles. In The Story of an Hour we…

Many works of literature from the 1900's, a time period in which male dominance was the norm, depict this ideal of male supremacy regularly throughout their context. This idea of male dominance controlling the female identity was extremely prominent in works of art such as the play Trifles written by Susan Glaspell in 1916, the short story A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor that was written in 1955 and the poem Women by May Swenson written in 1967. In each of these three works of…