Trifles by Susan Glaspell Essay

they are going through in their household, but we just ignore it because it is their business. There are not many of stories about what men go through in their marriage; however, there are many of popular stories of what women go through. "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell and "A Doll House" by Henrik Ibsen were plays that helped shed light on what women go through in marriage. Women face certain elements in their marriage such as controlling husband, the social bondage, and the choices they have to…

Core Assessment Essay Different readings are interpreted very differently based on the gender of the reader and as I read the play Trifles a few times many sexist ideals of the time or at least that era started to float around in my head. For example, as the attorney and sheriff search through the home for clues they decide there is nothing important downstairs since Mr. Wrights body was discovered upstairs “Nothing here but kitchen things.” This comment suggests that the men believe the lack…

The play Trifles written by Susan Glaspell takes place in the turn of the twentieth century in America when women were socially oppressed by men. The characters are introduced into the play as they enter into the unkempt house of John Wright, who had recently been murdered. In the play, there are three men: Sheriff Peters, County Attorney Henderson, and Hale, the man who discovered that John had been killed. Along with the three men, there were two women: Mrs. Peters, the wife of the Sheriff,…

Hale and Mrs. Peters also have a kinship to Minnie, just as to each other. They respect her work as a homemaker. Mrs. Hale quickly comes to Minnie's defense when her housekeeping skills are questioned, saying, "'There's a great deal of work to be done on a farm'" (1326). The women display their loyalty to each other and their sympathy for one another, too. Mrs. Peters can identify with the loneliness and sadness of losing something you love. She understands "'what stillness is,'" and Mrs. Hale…

In the play Trifles by Susan Glaspell, one would soon realize that this play is about trying to find a motive for the murder of John Wright. The men and women gather in the Wright’s house with the sole mission of trying to discover Mrs. Wright’s reason for killing her husband. Also in the beginning of the play, Mr. Hale says, “I guess you know about how much he talked himself, but I thought maybe if I went to the house and talked about it before his wife, though I said to Harry that I didn’t…

Analysis of “Trifles” In the single act play Trifles, written by Susan Glaspell, a foil exists between two female characters Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters. Glaspell allows these characters to act as foils to one another in order to highlight the contrary qualities and characteristics that are present throughout the play. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are foils to one another on the grounds that they differ from each other on their ideals of nineteenth-century feminine roles, opposition to the law, and…

woman has her own job or duty in this current society in which men are still the “stronger gender”. In the early days women were seen only as wives who were intended to clean, cook, and take care of the kids, as we can interpret in the short play “Trifles.” A farmer called John Wright has been murdered. While he lay asleep in the middle of the night, someone strung a rope around his neck. And that someone might have been his wife Minnie Wright. Women in most societies were denied some of the…

Symbolism in “Trifles” Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles” is set in the early 1900’s. Throughout the course of the story, the main setting is in the kitchen. This would not sound so bad if we were not informed of other characteristics of the house. The kitchen and the house is described as gloomy and the overall sense of the house is just depressing. The first stage directions describe it as, “The kitchen in the now abandoned farmhouse of John Wright, a gloomy kitchen” (Glaspell, 772), and It is…

“Trifles”, by Susan Glaspell, demonstrates how the female characters feel suffocated by the male characters carrying out their suppressive gender stereotypes. Glaspell uses latent symbolism as well as extensive character development to help the reader visualize and interpret the divide between the genders. The play is set in the early nineteen hundreds around a time when women were still not equal to men, which is why the main character, Minnie Wright, is idolized by the other women in the play…

The play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell was written during a depression; a time in which women were housewives who reared children and maintained the household while their husbands worked. Harvested produce was preserved by the women for the winter months. The following summary entails the potential struggles that Mrs. Wright faced, both mental and physical, as foretold during an investigation of the murder of her husband. The story unfolded without even showing the main character at all. Mrs.…