Trifles

Trifles is a play about a woman name Minnie Wright who killed her husband, John Wright. In the play, the sheriff Henry Peters and the county attorney George Henderson, along with the witness Lewis Hale, are investigating John’s Wrights farmhouse. While their wives, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hales, are gathering up things to take to Mrs. Wright, who is in custody. While the men are investigating, the women find an empty bird cage, then found the dead bird in Mrs. Wright’s sewing kit. The bird was…

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…

Glaspell’s play Trifles and Lynn Nottage’s play Poof. On the surface, these plays don’t seem to have very much in common; a closer look, however, reveals that both plays show similar themes and issues. The issues highlighted in both plays are suppression of women and ramifications of society. In both plays there are similarities but differing in some aspects. Noting the similarities and contrasts in the symbolism, irony, point of view and setting which are implemented within the plays. Trifles…

stir not only then but now as well. Thus allowing another problem to arise which is a group of people that go against what 's said to be right. Feminist. In the following two plays there are two women, Nora from “A Doll House” and Mrs. Hale from “ Trifles” are perfect examples of feminist. Both are women who live what is said to be a “norm” life following their husbands commands and such. These women step out of their normal lives and do something a woman of that time should never be caught…

time period. Early twentieth century America was a time for numerous technological, medical and economical advancements, but was sadly two to three generations away from experiencing equal opportunities amongst the two genders. Throughout the play Trifles, Susan Glaspell illuminates the underlying theme of social inequality faced by women living in the early 1900s through dialogue and placement of characters. Gender inequality was demonstrated by highlighting social dominance, lack of…

Minnie Wright in the play Trifles by Susan Glaspell and the Narrator in the short story “They Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman relate to each other through the oppressive lifestyles that they live caused by their controlling husbands. Both women are secluded from society by their husbands but for different reasons. In both Trifles and the “Yellow Wallpaper” one can see that there is a strict divide between female characters and male characters. In both stories, the women attempt to…

Glaspell’s play “Trifles” and Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour” both have a tone of the oppressed relations in the stories and the adverse response of the woman’s feeling towards the men and their relationship. Both stories focus on the feeling of freedom of breaking free of their marriage that had caused them to be upset because of the hurt their husbands had caused them. The stories both reflect on the ideas and feeling both women had about their marriages and the freedom they felt…

Prize-winning playwright who composed the play “Trifles” in 1916. The play was centered around the death of Mr. Wright who was strangled to death with a rope in his farmhouse. As Mr. Hale, Mr. Peters, and the county attorney seek to find evidence to convict Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters utilize what the men refer to as “trifles” to conduct an investigation while packing necessities to keep Mrs. Wright company while she is in jail. From my interpretation, “Trifles” portrays how women and…

While Nottages play POOF! and Glaspell’s play Trifles both fall under the same section: Trials of Marriage: Plays and share the same theme of domestic violence, they differ very strongly on two points. These points being: believability,how the murder was committed and the type of abuse. In POOF! Nottage’s approach was one of fiction, having the main character Loureen turn her husband into a “huge pile of smoking ashes”(1210). Unlike Trifles we Mrs.Wright murdered her husband by suffocating him,…

and values. However, it is not always easy. Although marriage is a beautiful experience it can also have some negative aspects. There are times when things get rough and the strong relationship begins to dwindle. The husbands in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles and Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat” mistreat their wives, which in turn results in their own death. There are many similarities and differences between these two works, many of which happen because of the effect the husbands had on their wives and…