Trifles

The early 1900’s were dramatically different from the current time period. World War I was held on a large scale at the time, but there was a more domestic issue at hand--the role of a woman. In her play Trifles, Susan Glaspell writes in relation to the current issue around her own everyday life. The role of a woman is told through a captivating story and a profound setting that is used to draw in her audience from the start. Glaspell focuses on the setting to reveal her story by applying…

The Detectives In the drama play “Trifles,” Minnie Wright is accused of killing her husband, Mr. Wright, in a brutal fashion by strangling with a rope in the middle of the night. The men, George Henderson, County Attorney; Henry Peters, Sheriff; and Lewis Hale, Wright’s neighbor are all trying to find a motive to put Mrs. Wright in jail for the crime, but the real detectives are the women, Mrs. Hale, Mr. Hale’s wife, and Mrs. Peters, the Sheriff wife. In the play, the women are the main two…

“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…

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…

Judgement is a modernized film version of Susan Glaspell’s play/short story, Trifles/ A Jury of Her Peers, by film student Steven Kale. When this film is compared to Glaspell’s original works about the Hossack Murder Trial, Kale attempts to remain true to her story and theme. There are many similarities and differences in historical context and social issues which have changed from the early 1900’s to 2009. On December 2, 1900, a sixty-year-old farmer, John Hossack, was murdered in Indianola,…

Susan Glaspell’s Trifles is a controversial play: controversial because, first time reader get a different idea about the play each time. Some come to the conclusion that this play is empowering for women because of its ending and how the women in the story choose and decided to keep information from the men. Other feel that this story goes in a total opposite direction, that the story shows a narrative where women are left feeling powerless and nothing but a victim of a patriarchal society.…

significance of symbols transcends beyond their connections to themes. People not only assign meaning to objects, they assign humanity into objects, permanently interjecting a personal part of themselves into the world. In Susan Glaspell’s play, Trifles, she eloquently uses many different symbols to communicate the individual…

Trifles gives a perfect example of a classical linear plot with exposition, an inciting incident, rising action, climax, and finally falling action. Although, most of the play takes place in the rising action the inciting incident and climax and climax are arguable the most important aspects of a play. In Trifles specifically where the inciting incident that spurs the action throughout the rest of the play has been up for interpretation since the play was written. I personally think that the…

of choosing a play that signifies a strong meaning while keeping the audience amused. The selection they must decide on is “Los Vendidos” by Luis Valdez, “Andre’s Mother” by Terrance McNally, or “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell. The best one I would prefer that best fits Newberry drama department is “Trifles”. It…

The story could be considered as having began the day prior when Mr. Wright was killed or many years before that when Mrs. Wright married him and changed so much. “Trifles” has a climactic structure as is evidenced by restricted characters, locale, and scenes as well as a plot that starts very late in the story. Protagonist “Trifles” is different from many other plays in the fact that the main character of the play, is never actually seen. Mrs. Minnie Wright is the main character. The…