Robin Wright Penn

In the murder case of A Jury Of Her Peers written by Susan Glaspell, Mrs. Wright stolidly tells Mr. Hale and Mr. Peters that her spouse is dead. The men along with their wives work together to solve the murder of Mr. Wright. Although Mrs. Wright does not initially appear capable of murder, Mrs. Peters and Mr. Hale conclude she strangled her husband as evidenced by the crazily sewn quilt patch, the unhinged bird cage, and the mutilated canary. First, the quilt patch was much messier than Mrs.…

When I saw the title of Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers,” the first thing I expected was a court case that would take place with a real jury consisting of a woman’s peers. However, this story was actually about two women, their husbands, and a county attorney searching a house to attempt to figure out a murder case. While the men attempt to figure out the how the women secretly learn why. As the women walk around the kitchen, they discover half-completed task after task. They find…

and emotion. The use of symbolism by Glaspell is very important in understanding the concept of the Wrights marriage and lack of women's rights during the time. The major symbols throughout Trifles are the canary, the cage, and the knotted pattern on the unfinished quilt. It is rather obvious the canary is Minnie Foster before she married her husband, the very controlling and secluded, John Wright. Mrs.Hale describes Mrs.Wright before she was married by saying, “She used to wear pretty clothes…

Social imagination is basically taking a look at something and kind of thinking outside the box. It is almost like analyzing a certain decision, action or idea for instance and digging deeper into the why’s or what’s of the situation. As we read in the text “thinking like a sociologist means making the familiar strange”. Social imagination can be used to look at things in our lives that we take for granted. We don’t delve deep and generate information about it or look at it from different…

Trifles is an exciting drama told back in the early 1900s. The play begins after Mrs. Wrights husband has been found strangled in his house. The neighboring farmer and local sheriff arrive to investigate. Mrs. Hale is the wife of the neighboring farmer that arrives. Mrs. Hale was use to dealing with sexism, and had a strong independent air about her. With grace she wasn’t afraid to bark back at the men, even though she did so respectfully, and in her own quaint little way. When she says to the…

immediate surroundings profoundly affect each other. The way in which our society is structured has an impact on the culture we construct, which indeed affects our actions, beliefs, and feelings on an individual level (Durkheim, 1982). However, as C. Wright Mills (1959) writes in The Sociological Imagination Chapter One: The Promise, a single individual contributes minimally to this structure or the course of its history, even when its push and pull shapes him or her (Mills, 1959). This paper…

our society and ourselves in society. In this paper I will be examining the relationship between sociological imagination, the Clinton and Lewinsky scandal, and the break-through of the Euro in eleven countries. What is sociological imagination? C. Wright Mills (2001) describes it as estimating our own destiny by discovering ourselves in this century. In order to do this we have to view ourselves through a different sociological lens we normally wouldn’t see with our own eyes (Macaluso, 2015).…

Frank Lloyd Wright During his life, Frank Lloyd Wright designed and produced as many as six hundred buildings (“Frank Lloyd Wright”). Among these, some of his most influential works were made during the 1920s. These works included new, innovative buildings and styles that would mark the turning point between old and modern architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright’s works in the 1920s greatly influenced architecture to come. Frank Lloyd Wright’s early life was essential to him becoming a famous architect…

allows the women to collect some items for Mrs. Wright, who is in custody for suspicion of murdering her husband. The women then find a quilt that brings suspicion about Mrs. Wright, although the men tease them for pondering about the quilt as they enter the room on their way to inspect the barn. Meanwhile, the women discover an empty birdcage with a dead bird in Mrs. Wright 's sewing basket. The bird has been strangled in the same manner as John Wright was found in bed. Although Mrs. Peters is…

In the play Trifles by Susan Glaspell, the men are portrayed as condescending towards women. The play centers on the murder of John Wright who died in his bed by strangulation. His wife Minnie has been charged with the crime. When the play begins, the County Attorney, the neighbors Mr. and Mrs. Hale, and the Sheriff and his wife have come to collect things to take to Minnie in jail. In addition, the men want to look around the murder scene upstairs clues. The men never stop to think why such a…