Susan Glaspell

Essay 3: Play Analyst In the mysterious Play “Trifles”, written by Susan Glaspell, the county attorney desperately tries to discover the works of the death of Mr. Wright. Mr. Wright was found dead in his bed with a rope around his neck that evening. The number one suspect of this crime is his wife, Mrs. Wright. Mr. Hale, the closest neighbor had informed the police on Mr. Wright’s body. The question that surfaced throughout the play was whether or not Mrs.Wright killed her husband. This…

exactly does it mean to “stay in a woman's place”? This is a common phrase that has been tossed around by men for decades. You have to wonder what would the world be like if women never decided to step outside of this place that men confined them to. Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles hit the stage in 1916, a time where women didn’t even have the right to vote in this country because they were thought to not have the mental capacity to handle such a task. It was a trying time for women, which is what…

The story could be considered as having began the day prior when Mr. Wright was killed or many years before that when Mrs. Wright married him and changed so much. “Trifles” has a climactic structure as is evidenced by restricted characters, locale, and scenes as well as a plot that starts very late in the story. Protagonist “Trifles” is different from many other plays in the fact that the main character of the play, is never actually seen. Mrs. Minnie Wright is the main character. The…

early creation of humanity to modern day society, women have always been mistreated and underestimated by society’s superior gender. This has been an ongoing cycle for ages. Men have always ruled each nation we have created. Trifles, written by Susan Glaspell, exhibits common actions of the common man. Not only does this poem interpret a male’s role but the role of a women. A woman by the name of Mrs. Wright is introduced as the main suspect of the poem. Often women face a life like Mrs. Wright,…

not get along well and bring out the poor side in each other in general. The thought that women would never stick up for each other or try to help each other, however, is disproved in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles and Lynn Nottage’s POOF!, wherein both of them women strive to help someone of their gender in some way. Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles shows women defending each other when one is faced with charges on the murder of her husband and two more help to disprove her guilt, despite…

The novel “Walk Two Moons” by Sharon Creech and the short story “The Guest” by Uma Krishnaswami both have a similar theme. Both of these stories reveals the theme as don’t judge someone until you know them well enough. Although these two stories share the same theme, it teaches the lesson in different ways. In the novel “Walk Two Moons” the theme it has is don’t judge someone until you know them well; this theme is taught by using the character's words, thoughts, and feelings. In the novel,…

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…

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,…

Mrs. Hale’s intentions in “Trifles” could be interpreted in a multitude of ways. Mrs. Hale’s actions show that she wants to help her old friend Minnie get her life back. Throughout the poem Mrs. Hale’s when talking about Minnie had a pitiful tone. Mrs. Hale felt bad for Minnie and what had become of Minnie’s life. When the police start their investigation at the farmhouse, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are there to help Minnie get her things in order. Mrs. Hale shows that she cares for Minnie and…