Differences And Justice In Susan Glaspell's Trifles
Susan Glaspell’s Trifles (1916) is about the fine line between moral beliefs and justice. Susan Glaspell was a pioneer for feminist drama. She was the daughter of a grain dealer and grew into one of America’s greatest play writers. She also attended college at Drake University and was a reporter for some time. Her inspiration for writing plays came later when she married a theatrical director named George Cook. It is because of him that she established Americas first influential noncommercial theater troupe and where she began her journey with play writing. In Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles two women have stumbled upon the true means of the crime that has been committed. However they have distracted the investigators from discovering the truth.
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There are several reasons that support this assertion. The idea for Trifles came from Glaspell’s past experience . It is important to take these experiences into account in order to better understand the true meaning of the play. To begin with the law can be unjust, in this case patriarchal. The male characters seem to dismiss the female characters and do not take all sides into account. In addition it is up to personal morals to evaluate the evidence. Evidence must be processed by our morals in order to truly believe the verdict is correct. More importantly, morals allowed the women to carry out their own sense of justice on Mr. Wright. Who displays seemingly obvious abuse towards Minnie. According to literary critic Judith Russell, justice is served but through morals instead of the conventional method of law. Nonetheless one must understand Glaspell's experiences in order to fully interpret the meaning of …show more content…
Without Cook, Glaspell would have never been pressured to create this masterpiece. Her ideas for the play came to her while she was at the wharf viewing the stage. She states,”When I was a newspaper reporter out in Iowa, I was sent down-state to do a murder trial, and I never forgot going into the kitchen of a woman locked up in town”(1169). The idea for Mrs. Wright came from this experience, without it she might have not came up with this character. She is able to express herself thoroughly because of her past as a reporter and display unjust
There are several reasons that support this assertion. The idea for Trifles came from Glaspell’s past experience . It is important to take these experiences into account in order to better understand the true meaning of the play. To begin with the law can be unjust, in this case patriarchal. The male characters seem to dismiss the female characters and do not take all sides into account. In addition it is up to personal morals to evaluate the evidence. Evidence must be processed by our morals in order to truly believe the verdict is correct. More importantly, morals allowed the women to carry out their own sense of justice on Mr. Wright. Who displays seemingly obvious abuse towards Minnie. According to literary critic Judith Russell, justice is served but through morals instead of the conventional method of law. Nonetheless one must understand Glaspell's experiences in order to fully interpret the meaning of …show more content…
Without Cook, Glaspell would have never been pressured to create this masterpiece. Her ideas for the play came to her while she was at the wharf viewing the stage. She states,”When I was a newspaper reporter out in Iowa, I was sent down-state to do a murder trial, and I never forgot going into the kitchen of a woman locked up in town”(1169). The idea for Mrs. Wright came from this experience, without it she might have not came up with this character. She is able to express herself thoroughly because of her past as a reporter and display unjust