Susan Atkins

relationships. Then men were searching around the farmhouse for clues or evidence but the woman were the one who was founding the evidence in the wife cooking but the men was paying no attention and ignored the woman and they were blind of the truth. Susan Glaspell is a reporter that’s works for Des Moines News. She covered a murder cased of this farmer’s wife. Her name was Margaret Hossack, she was accused of killing her husband who name was john. He died in his sleep while she hit him twice in…

usually made to be unhappy as well. The feeling of being miserable could drive a woman to search for her happiness in something else; she sometimes could find happiness in things such as pets, for example Minnie’s bird in Trifles. In the play Trifles by Susan Glaspell, the focus of the plot is the wife, Minnie Wright, who is facing a murder charge of her husband, John Wright. This one-act play also follows other characters who are trying to figure out what…

Sarah Booth Delaney is a southern belle and fallen daddy's girl who has no job or husband and north of thirty, and at the start of the series, finds herself about to lose the family's plantation located in the fictional town of Zinnia, Mississippi. On the plantation is the ghost of her great-great grandmother's nanny, Jitty, she is the one who gave Sarah the idea to kidnap the dog of her friend. Becoming a private investigator is what winds up saving the family plantation. "Them Bones" by…

and are astounded to see the Stone Table broken. Aslan has disappeared. Suddenly Susan and Lucy hear Aslan's voice from behind them. Aslan has risen from the dead. He says the innocent beings can not be killed on that table. Aslan carries the girls to the Witch's castle, where they free all the prisoners who have been turned to stone. He has the power to blow on the stone to melt it into the original being. Aslan, Susan, and Lucy join the battle between Peter's army and the Witch's troops. Peter…

“Trifles”, a 1916 play written by Susan Glaspell, centralizes around the death of Mrs. Wright’s husband, John. Her neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Hale, as well as the local sheriff and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Henderson, start off the play by entering the Wright’s empty farmhouse to investigate the murder. While the men look for evidence, the women begin to search for seemly insignificant clues that end up revealing the motive behind Mr. Wright’s crime. Overall, Glaspell’s use of subtle commentary on…

century, women were commonly mistreated. Among these women were farm woman. With the feeling of being trapped, the women were often stuck in unhappy marriages. In the play Trifles, Susan Glaspell uses symbolism to prove the mistreatment and emotional abuse that Minnie goes through, which will lead Minnie to kill her husband. Susan Glaspell uses the symbolism of the canary to represent Minnie. This is because, like the bird Minnie is kept in a cage. Instead of an actual cage, Minnie's barrier is…

Characterize John Wright- What Sort of Person was He and How Do You know? In Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles”, George Henderson: the County Attorney, Sheriff Peters, Mrs. Peters, Lewis Hale, and Mrs. Hale travel to the home of John Wright in search of evidence. John Wright is dead. He was strangled to death with a rope in his own bed while he slept. John’s wife: Mrs. Wright, is the only person who was known to be present at the scene of the crime at the time of the murder. However, Mrs. Wright…

The detail in the book, In Cold Blood, facilitates the reader’s understanding the imagery that develops suspense throughout. Dick and Perry (the murders of the Clutter’s family) not being “the kind to kick off his shoes and sit by the shore” worked hard to accomplish their murders clear from any possible clues that could be used against them. Nancy faced towards the wall covered with blood due to the bullet that made its way through the back of her head with her hands tied together,…

The Portrayal of Society and How it Affects Female Characters: A Look at Machinal and Trifles Sophie Treadwell's Machinal and Susan Glaspell's Trifles take place in two very different worlds, yet they encompass some of the same problems, with both women from these different time periods choosing to kill their husbands as it was the only way they saw to escape their situations. Treadwell's Helen Jones and Glaspell's Mrs. Wright are both restricted by the men in their lives. Helen Jones being…

In the texts Trifles and “A Jury Of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell we go through the story with The Sheriff, County Attorney, Hale, Mrs.Hale and more. While Trifles and “A Jury Of Her Peers” have many similarities they also have some differences. The texts by Susan Glaspell are comparable in many ways the author, for example, wrote both texts and the plot is the same for both. The characters are the same in both texts “ ‘By the way,’ he said, ‘has anything been moved?’ He turned to the sheriff.…