Trifles by Susan Glaspell Essay

In the play Trifles by Susan Glaspell there are several different types of relationships examined throughout. Since writing this play in 1916 the relationships are very different then they are today. These different types of relationships add an extra element that enhances the readers experience when reading the play. The relationships investigated in this play are a murderous wife and dead husband, guilty friends, and the interesting dynamic husbands and wives in the 1900’s. The most obvious…

the theme of the play or story. In Trifles by Susan Glaspell, the author uses seemingly small objects to reveal more about her characters. Likewise, the author Henrik Ibsen uses objects in the play A Doll’s House to reveal more about the characters. Objects are often used to reveal not only characters, but also the themes in plays. In Trifles Glaspell uses the telephone, bird, and a bird cage to reveal more about the theme and characters. The telephone in Trifles reveals the loneliness of Mr.…

to figuring out the motive for the murder of Minnie Foster’s husband. In the 1900’s, Susan Glaspell artfully and skillfully pieces together this murder mystery in her short story, A Jury of her Peers, which was originally adapted from her one-act play Trifles. Stephen Kale, an aspiring…

Female Oppression The Trifles is a play was written in 1916 by Susan Glaspell; it gives insights into the role of the women in the society during this period. The play can be described as feminist in that it fights against the depiction of women as brainless housewives (Bressler 183). The play takes place in Mr. Wright’s untidy house after his murder and his wife’s incarceration for his death. There are five characters in the play, three of them are males, and two of them are females. Mrs. Hale…

in a crime story is normally dividing by the law abiding citizens from the criminal, the characters here are soon divided on the basis of sex differences.” (Alkalay) In Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles” Glaspell uses a murder investigation of a woman’s husband to demonstrate the different roles of men and women in the early 1900’s. Glaspell shows the reader, through small significant objects that the men think are inessential to illustrate the greater value women have other than merely taking care of a…

sex” (Glaspell), to protect those that one relates to the most. In Susan Glaspell’s short story, A Jury of Her Peers, the characters personify that exact constant by protecting their peers, respectively, as a result of the historical gender segregation. To begin, the women in the short story are not friends, with the narrator of the story stating “She [Martha Hale] had met Mrs. Peters the year before at the county fair… she remembered… that she did not seem like a sheriff’s wife,” (Glaspell)…

Peers”, published in 1927, written Susan Glaspell, is a short story based on the 1900 murder of John Hossack. The short story was originally written as a one-act play in 1916. In 1950, the short story then became an episode of the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Years to follow, in 1980 the short story became a short film that was nominated for an Academy Award. Growing up in a town that did not believe in women’s rights to employment and education, Glaspell still attended college…

While reading Susan Glaspell’s A Jury of Her Peers I have discovered many symbolic meanings behind the novel, the themes and how I can relate to the novel, in terms of women being subjugated by men. Susan Glaspell completed a novel that is still relevant to today’s times. It was in the early 1900’s when this novel came out and by reading it today I have realized the behavior of men towards women remains the same, but this does not go for all men. The setting takes place at a farmhouse where a…

In the play Trifles by Susan Glaspell, the men are portrayed as condescending towards women. The play centers on the murder of John Wright who died in his bed by strangulation. His wife Minnie has been charged with the crime. When the play begins, the County Attorney, the neighbors Mr. and Mrs. Hale, and the Sheriff and his wife have come to collect things to take to Minnie in jail. In addition, the men want to look around the murder scene upstairs clues. The men never stop to think why such a…

In the play Trifles, the play write Susan Glaspell believes that women are being undressed by the men. This is shown throughout the story with the usage of several types of irony: dramatic, verbal, and situational. To starts of is an example from page 7, lines 73, “They wonder if she was going to quilt it or just knot it.” This was stated by the Sheriff right when they came downstairs after the ladies found the quilt. This is an example of dramatic irony as the men expect the ladies to be…