Trifles by Susan Glaspell Essay

even today; society views men as being the breadwinner and wise. While a woman is viewed as only being put on this earth to be a housewife and do what she told to do by her husband. In Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles” is a social satire that criticizes the role of women in a male dominated society. The play Trifles is about a woman named Mrs. Wright and she was accused of murdering her husband. Mr. Wright was found dead in his bed with a rope rung around his neck. Throughout the play the attorney…

directionally and physically visualize their work. Susan Glaspell, the playwright of Trifles, uses the elements of drama to aid the creation of a stimulating mystery. In Trifles, Glaspell tells the tale of a murder needing to be solved through two different perspectives represented by the two different sexes. A group of men and women enter the Wright’s farmhouse to find evidence and investigate the crime scene of Mr. Wright’s murder. In order to create her play, Glaspell employs the elements of…

tidy. Since the man of the household was the one working, doing labor outside, and bringing in the income, women were looked at as inferior to the men. In Susan Glaspell’s Trifles, she brings light to some of the gender issues in her society, and shows the different ways of problem solving and thinking between men and women. The conflict in Trifles is derived from the expectations, criticism, and underestimation placed on women by the society (and especially men) in the early 1900s (or in this…

Along with Glaspell’s work Trifles, other works during the time were also keying in on the issue of injustice to women within the legal system. “Kerfol” written by Edith Warton and another work by Susan Glaspell, the short story “A Jury of Her Peers”, were also attacking the inequality of fairness under the law for women. “Trifles depicts an unequal trial of strength between the male prosecution story and the female defence story, in which the female protagonists hide the emerging defence…

are brave enough to write their story, showing their own personal viewpoints and experiences. There are two works of literature that reveal the viewpoints of marriage and individuality in the centuries. Kate Chopin’s A Story of an Hour and Susan Glaspell’s Trifles focuses on gender roles, and freedom from captivity. These stories possess similar attributes and differences even though they were written in different time periods. A theme that is focused on within the two stories is freedom and…

The short story “A Jury of Her Peers” and the play Trifles by Susan Glaspell are very similar in nature. They both share the same plot, setting, characters, and most of the dialogue. However, one piece is a play and one is a short story. Plays are easier to understand if they are acted out, rather than reading them alone. Both titles are effective after reading the pieces. The short story is entitled “A Jury of Her Peers” because the two major characters, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peter, basically…

amount of social standing in the past century, there will always be those who view men as superior, more capable individuals. Susan Glaspell’s Trifles is a timeless feminist example of what can happen when women take a step out of the kitchen and into the world as those around them neglect to acknowledge the magnitude of a woman’s impact within society. In the play, Glaspell uses the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wright to show the unrealistic…

The play Trifles, written by Susan Glaspell, tells the story of a somewhat mysterious murder committed by the hands of an unsuspected killer. Mr. Wright, the husband of Minnie Wright, is found lifeless after the neighbors, Mr. & Mrs. Hale, inquire into sharing a phone line for both couple’s houses. After the finding, the county attorney and sheriff proceed to inspect the crime scene for clues that could potentially convict Mrs. Wright. Mrs. Peters, the sheriff’s wife, and Mrs. Hale accompany…

Ms. Manning ENG 110-800 13 June 2016 A Jury of Her Peers: Historical Analysis When Susan Glaspell originally wrote “A Jury of Her Peers” in 1917, men’s views of women’s intelligence and capabilities were not seen through the same light as they are today. Because women were seen as the lesser sex, there was little education provided to them prohibiting their escape from the bottom of the societal food chain. Glaspell took a huge leap of faith by publishing “A Jury of Her Peers” since it goes…

return to their traditional gender roles. Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles” present women who are fully men’s intellectual equals, but it suggests that only their solidarity would ensure justice in a men’s world. Lastly, T.S. Eliot depicts women in a demeaning light. He describes his female characters as an unambitious and uncommunicative tool at the disposal of men. Eliot attempts to discourage women’s equality. As the relationship between men and women…