Susan Glaspell

“Women are used to worrying over trifles” (Gaspell 1158). says Mr. Hale in Susan Glaspell’s 1916 play Trifles. By making this statement, he illustrations the frame of mind that spurs Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters into action, representing the feminism in the play’s time. As the play intertwined into Glaspell’s mind, America was challenging its opinions on women. Women were challenging woman’s suffrage as well as control over their own bodies through birth control (Womans Suffrage Movement…).…

A farmer’s wife held for the murder of her husband. Who could be capable of understanding why she would do something like this? The story of this murder is told in the short story A Jury of Her Peers and in the play Trifles, both by Susan Glaspell. In both pieces of work, the investigation of this crime is taken place, but in slightly different points of view. Both of these stories show the opposite positions men and women have in society, but the short story shows more the feelings of how one…

In her short story, Cacoethes Scribendi, Catherine Sedgwick uses the pen as a phallic symbol to represent their grip on men. Susan Glaspell, on the other hand, uses a bird and messy kitchen in Jury of Her Peers to symbolize Minnie and her domestic struggle. Both authors describe domestic duties as obstacles in women’s search for their identity or freedom and each text has a victim of these domestic duties. While the women of both text attempt to gain control over the men, for their identity in…

marriage, the husband made all decisions regarding finances, family issues, and even controlled what activities the woman could or could not participate in. The short play Trifles, written by Susan Glaspell has many important symbols that are used to exemplify the oppression…

Mrs. Wright's creepy farmhouse in the play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell is the home of a very dark mystery. A man by the name of Mr. Wright, who was the husband of Mrs. Wright, is found dead in his bed. The sheriff and a detective investigate the crime scene and integrate Mrs. Wright but she said that he was strangled in his sleep by a rope. As the women look around the house they see that the house is full of clues and hints as to what happened to Mr. Wright, such as a towel left on the counter,…

In the early nineteenth century, Susan Glaspell wrote Trifles and sought to expose the patriarchal society oppressing women. The story unfolds with the murder of Mr. Wright. Mrs. Wright maintains her innocence, but it is extremely implausible for her husband to be strangled by a burglar while she slept. Foul play is involved so the Sheriff, Sheriff’s Deputy, and County Attorney arrive at her home to gather evidence while Mrs. Wright is held for questioning. The story depicts the loneliness,…

In august 1916 there was a play acted on the wharf theater by the Provincetown players that play is called trifles it is written by Susan Glaspell. Glaspell even played as one of the characters in the play she was Mrs. Hale. Today I’m going to write a critical analysis of an extract from that play. Critical analysis of anything is really important because it helps us to understand more and more about the play and things that we might not notice because there are always secret irony and secret…

written by Susan Glaspell. The idea of Glaspell’s story came from one of her earlier literary work, a one-act play entitled Trifles. This one-act play that she had written is also a product of one of Glaspell’s work, years before she wrote the play. This work is a news story that she covered while she was still a journalist. The news story was about a murder of a man named John which is the primary background story of both Trifles and “A Jury of Her Peers”. All three of these Glaspell works uses…

What could possibly drive a woman all the way to the point of murder? In “A Rose for Emily,” a short story by William Faulkner, and Trifles, a play by Susan Glaspell, the reader sees two stories in which this happens. In both of these stories, the protagonist is a woman, and both kill the men in their life. In Trifles, Mrs. Wright kills her husband while Emily kills her boyfriend in “A Rose for Emily.” Both of these stories take place from the third person point of view and are re-told in the…

Both Trifles by Susan Glaspell and The Sound of a Voice by David Henry Hwang share common traits, despite the obvious differences. They share mysteries and certain portrayals of women during the time periods. These will be discussed along with any influences the authors had when they were writing these plays. The first common trait is the mysteries both plays hold. The murder mystery in Trifles, the mystery of who the woman is in The Sound of a Voice, and the mystery of why the man came to the…