Susan Glaspell

“Small Great Things,” by Jodi Picoult is about a black nurse who is put on trial for murder when a white supremacist’s baby dies in her care. The speakers of the book are split between the author, and three characters: Ruth Jefferson, Turk Brauer, and Kennedy McQuarrie. Ruth is a black nurse, Turk is a white supremacist, and Kennedy is a defense attorney. The subject of the book is racism and discrimination. It focuses on the decisions of the characters and the results of their actions. The…

bring to her in jail. As the county attorney searches the kitchen, he is surprised when "he turn[s] to wipe them [his hands] on the roller towel—whirl[ing] it for a cleaner place. "Dirty towels! Not much of a housekeeper, would you say, ladies?" (Glaspell 8). The county attorney clearly expects…

A Character Analysis Of Hannah Swensen from Fudge Cupcake Murder Lou Holtz once said, “Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it”. This quote is displayed in many ways during the book. The main characters reveals more than the reader expects. Hannah Swenson, a young girl, is dating the head of the Sheriff's Department, Mike Kingston. She owns a small cookie store in the town of Lake Eden, called “The Cookie Jar”. Hannah has…

The name of play is significant to the theme of the story. The meaning of the word trifle is something that is trivial or inessential. So, the question is what is the relationship between the play's title and the attitude the men have regarding women and their "space" (kitchen) and their household duties? Well, in the story there was a murder committed by the wife of the of the man who died Mr. &Mrs. Wright. When the neighbor comes by and discovers that Mr. Wright had been murdered he sent for…

Once she married John Wright (the antagonist character of the play) her life became hopeless and forsaken. She pass to be diminish and isolated by her husband, “women all go through the same things--it's all just a different kind of the same thing” (Glaspell). The free and cheerful spirit that she used to be come to be a sad past. Mrs. Wright is the protagonist of the story. She made to the other characters to suspect, reconsidered, to regret, to felt compassion. And not only to the characters…

Trifles by Susanne Glaspell focuses on morality and justice. But if you dig a little deeper into the play it shows the roles of men and women in society during that time, along with the effects of loneliness and revenge. Minnie symbolized a caged bird that is forced to hide her beauty, not to sing, and is isolated from the community. Glaspell used the bird cage to signify that Minnie had very limited space to do as she pleased. Her husband took away her femininity; the pretty dresses she used to…

Women suffrage “A Jury of her peers” by Susan Glaspell is judge against the “weaker sex”, that’s why Ms. Wright, Ms. Hate, and Ms. Peters understand their suffrage and have their bond. The judge that man has against women back in the 1917 and still some of them have now have some irony and have foreshadowing. Ms. Wright was so lonely and unhappy by his husband was so cold and apprehensive with her. It has emotional intensity and domestic stereotype. The women have their place in their place…

all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” There is no mention of women in the declaration of Independence. “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell, is based in 1916 and tells a story about women’s suffrage. The play tells the story of a murder mystery that incorporates society during a time when women’s social status was viewed as beneath that of a male. The play shows the…

“Lamb to the Slaughter”, a short story written by the celebrated author Roald Dahl, is a story that follows Mary Maloney, a pregnant housewife who had recently found out her husband, a chief detective, was going to leave her. Out of desperation, Mary murders her husband with a frozen leg of lamb and then concealing her wrongdoing and discarding the murder weapon by encouraging the policemen who were investigating the murder to eat it. The most salient idea the author explores is the betrayal;…

In 1893, a woman named Sarah Collins was brutally murdered by her husband, Patrick Collins, in the cloakroom of the kindergarten at which she was a janitress. In his novel, McTeague, Frank Norris eerily echoed this case, which was claimed to be evidence of social Darwinism. The novel, named after the protagonist, is centered on a man named McTeague, a hulking and dim-witted dentist, and the events that befall him and those around him. Though the novel initially met much resistance and little…