Trifles

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…

“Trifles” is a one-act play written and produced by Susan Glaspell and first performed in Massachusetts in 1916. The play based on the actual murder of John Hossack of Iowa in 1900. His wife accused of murdering her husband but was found not guilty after the third trial. Susan Glaspell was the journalist for the trail (Susan 1). The play has seven characters, the county attorney (George Henderson), a local sheriff (Henry Peters), and his wife (Mrs. Peters) the neighbors of the Wrights (Lewis…

Both Trifles and A Raisin in the Sun convey a message on how life’s hardships can influence one’s path. Both of these plays act on the premise that life has many forks in the road but it is the how people react to those hardships that control one’s route. These two plays, however, have opposite theme’s regarding the daily struggles people face. Although both the Younger family in A Raisin in the Sun and Mrs. Wright in Trifles endure great hardship, the Youngers illustrate how family sustains a…

wife had to be modest, obedient, and hard working. Certainly, such limitations of a woman’s free will could not go unpunished. Sometimes, constant oppression, humiliation, and ignorance resulted in terrible crimes as described in Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles”, while on other occasions, men’s failure to appreciate desperate…

When comparing “The Lottery,” and “Trifles,” some may begin to think about the running theme to both of these literature works, which is murder. Shirley Jackson creates a mysterious short story on how a town stones one person to death just for the sake of an old tradition. Susan Glaspell creates a play based on the feelings of one women who is so confined to her home, she eventually kills her husband without remorse. “The Lottery,” is insightful by showcasing what it is like to deal with a past…

Hosseini explores the role and treatment of women before, during and after the period of war in 1980s Afghanistan. Notably, he examines the drastic changes in attitudes to marriage, education and law. This is as Mariam is presented as ‘Naturally timid, or sweet...or dependent, or self-pitying’ and Nana as ‘the woman as eternally dissatisfied shrew’. However, in his portrayal of Laila, she both challenges and conforms to both the society she lives in and in terms of the ‘literary representation…

The Assassination of Mr. Wright This thrilling play, “Trifles” formerly known as A Jury of Her Peers, Susan Glaspell uses this play as a feminist outlook in the 1920’s to make a statement to her peers. This play first takes place in the out of order kitchen of an abandoned farmhouse. Five people enter the house two women and three men; George Henderson the County Attorney, Henry Peters the Sheriff, Lewis Hale the neighboring farmer who found the body, Mrs. Peters the Sheriff’s wife, and…

Trifles Gender Issues “[Trifles is] Glaspell’s best-known and most often produced play” (Levin 178). It was based in 1916, which was a well-known time period that upheld the ideals that a woman is meant to serve a man, and that women have no firm standing to do as they please (“The Woman Question Onstage” 53). This play is notorious for exposing gender issues; a woman is below a man and he has complete power to control her happiness. These issues were expressed when it was discovered that…

Trifles is an exciting drama told back in the early 1900s. The play begins after Mrs. Wrights husband has been found strangled in his house. The neighboring farmer and local sheriff arrive to investigate. Mrs. Hale is the wife of the neighboring farmer that arrives. Mrs. Hale was use to dealing with sexism, and had a strong independent air about her. With grace she wasn’t afraid to bark back at the men, even though she did so respectfully, and in her own quaint little way. When she says to the…

It is a known fact that both men and women had different tasks in society. In both plays “A Doll’s House” and “Trifles”, it is obvious how women are not treated as equals by the men. The play “A Doll’s House”, which takes place in a small town in Norway, tells the “happy” life of Nora and her husband, Trovald. Then the other play “Trifles”, which takes place in Nebraska, USA, tells how the men, and the women accompanying them react differently to the life the murder suspect lived. Even though…