Susan Glaspell

4.) In Susan Glaspell’s “trifles” Mr. hale is giving a statement about what he witnessed after showing up to Minnie wrights home the day Mr. Wright was murdered. He talks about Minnie wright as almost careless about her husband’s death. She seemed antsy and a bit nervous but she had a way about her that showed she wasn’t too torn up about his passing.Mr hale did not really know how to interpret her reaction. He seemed confused or unsure about whether or not she was upset or happy that her…

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…

play, “Trifles,” Susan Glaspell focuses her discontent with society on the impeding condescension the women of her play are exposed to. The overall play possesses a feminist connotation in which the protagonist women attempt to detach themselves from the false male-imposed identity they are given by unintentionally solving a crime. The men of the play are oblivious to the intellect and expertise of the women and are therefore unable to solve said crime. It can be argued that Glaspell suggests…

The one-act play “Trifles” written by Susan Glaspell in 1916 is a play about an on-going crime scene investigation where Mrs. Minnie Wright is accused of having murdered her husband, Mr. John Wright, but no evidence or reasons for her to commit such crime is found by the County Attorney and the Sheriff inside of the house where Mr. Wright’s body was found. In the play, it is shown how Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters find a dead bird in the house and decide to hide it from the investigators. As a juror…

scene the person must be very careful and pay attention to every detail. By making incorrect presumptions and miscalculating the importance of information can lead to a faulty verdict or conviction. When analyzing the setting of Trifles written by Susan Glaspell, we will discover how it gave away the murderer. One significant clue in the setting that helps to identify the murder is the “dead bird”. The “dead bird” is the piece evidence that reveals Mrs. Wright’s motive. Her bird had a broken…

end. Mrs. Hale states that “[it’s] all over the place (Glaspell 822).” Whereas, the stitching had previously been “nice and even (Glaspell 822).” This detail holds significance because it shows that something had changed within Mrs. Wright. Even after the officer placed her in jail, she did not worry about her husband's death, she, instead, asked for her “apron and her little shawl (Glaspell 821)” be brought to her and “about her fruit (Glaspell 821).” The women also found the bird…

Susan Glaspell's "Trifles" is a one act play based in the early 20th century that includes strong feminist elements that fit well with the time and the world-wide women's rights movement. The play is a murder mystery surrounding the Wrights, Mrs. Wright the wife, and John Wright the murder victim. The story also uses the general mood of society toward women and how they were viewed as beneath most men and not having the intelligence or ability to perform as well as men in most situations. The…

Different cultures have a set of rules and guidelines that prescribe the acceptable norms in the society. These gender roles largely determine how women, children and men should conduct themselves within their communities. In Trifles, Susan Glaspell exposes a society that trivializes women’s opinions while upholding the male point of view. The three male characters in the play consistently emphasize the fact that women have a penchant for unimportant things in the society. The dominance…

through which one views it. Demonstrating this concept perfectly, “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell was published in 1917, a time period littered with the glaringly obvious disparities between men and women’s societal roles. Originally adapted from Glaspell’s one-act play Trifles, “A Jury of Her Peers” is a fictional account of the murder of John Hossack, purportedly by his wife, covered by Glaspell, who at the time reported for the Des Moines Times. Glaspell’s career in both playwriting…

In the play, “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell, the first piece of evidence that Minnie was, in fact, responsible for the murder of her husband, John, was that she did not go to get help when she discovered his body. Instead, she left him lying there and went to quietly sit alone. Next, was that of her demeanor or lack thereof emotions nor concerns that her husband was dead. This was apparent when company the next day asked to see her husband and her response was that they couldn’t because he was dead…