Susan Glaspell

The “Trifles” play, published by Susan Glaspell, started off the play with the prime suspect that killed Mr. Wright being Mrs. Wright, his wife. On the other hand, in “The Cask of Amontillado”, published by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator started off with Montresor plotting to on taking his revenge on Fortunato. As much as there are similarities in both the play and story, there are also differences that distinct both the narrators. For instance, in “The Cask of Amontillado”, the reader will…

death of John Wright brings many thing into question; was it a murder, could it possibly be a suicide, was his wife to blame, was this an act of premeditated murder or self-defense, or was it his wife’s way out of their long unhappy marriage? Susan Glaspell does a good job of painting to the reader a dark, eerie and messy picture of the isolated home in which Minnie Wright was thought to have murdered her husband John Wright. She tells the readers of the lonely woman in the desolate house at her…

1. Susan Glaspell’s Trifles meets the credentials for Aristotle’s Unit of Action by the story being focused on the investigation of the murder. The investigation is the only thing the characters mention and if they do go on a tangent it is because it is related to the investigation. The story is not told before or after the investigation, the reader only knows what the characters in the play know at this specific time. The actual murder is not mentioned only the process to find out what happened…

The first two paragraphs of the short story written by Susan Glaspell, “A Jury of Her Peers” presents Martha Hale’s, neighbor of Mrs. Wright who is the prime suspect of Mr. Wright is death, routine as a woman and her overall thought process. Mrs. Hale left her kitchen “in no shape for leaving” (490) indicating that she is a person of neatness; no job is to be left unfinished and high importance is attached to women keeping a “proper” household. In addition, the time period is in the early…

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…

Susan Glaspell’s Trifles is a controversial play: controversial because, first time reader get a different idea about the play each time. Some come to the conclusion that this play is empowering for women because of its ending and how the women in the story choose and decided to keep information from the men. Other feel that this story goes in a total opposite direction, that the story shows a narrative where women are left feeling powerless and nothing but a victim of a patriarchal society.…

Also the ways how females’ gender work in different societies. Susan Glaspell in her play “Trifles” points out the relationships between husbands and wives, principally a marriage that concluded in murder. Sheriff Peters, Mrs. Peters, Hale, Mrs. Hale and the County Attorney Henderson met together in the Wright’s farmhouse…

Symbolism in “Trifles” Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles” is set in the early 1900’s. Throughout the course of the story, the main setting is in the kitchen. This would not sound so bad if we were not informed of other characteristics of the house. The kitchen and the house is described as gloomy and the overall sense of the house is just depressing. The first stage directions describe it as, “The kitchen in the now abandoned farmhouse of John Wright, a gloomy kitchen” (Glaspell, 772), and It is…

Yet, in many ways, the significance of symbols transcends beyond their connections to themes. People not only assign meaning to objects, they assign humanity into objects, permanently interjecting a personal part of themselves into the world. In Susan Glaspell’s play, Trifles, she eloquently uses many different symbols to communicate the individual…

“Trifles”, by Susan Glaspell, demonstrates how the female characters feel suffocated by the male characters carrying out their suppressive gender stereotypes. Glaspell uses latent symbolism as well as extensive character development to help the reader visualize and interpret the divide between the genders. The play is set in the early nineteen hundreds around a time when women were still not equal to men, which is why the main character, Minnie Wright, is idolized by the other women in the play…