“I’d hate to have men comin’ into my kitchen snoopin’ around and criticizing (Glaspell)”‚ Martha Hale said testily. Martha Hale is a minor character in a short story by Susan Glaspell “A Jury of Her Peers. She is at a friend’s house with her husband‚ the county sheriff‚ and his wife looking for motives to a murder. Martha Hale cares about other’s feelings‚ hates to see things unfinished‚ and wants to make a difference in Minnie Foster’s life. Earlier in the day‚ the county sheriff and his wife‚ Mrs
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Susan Willis is a very intelligent woman that is an English Professor at the University of Duke. Even though she has a high intellect‚ Willis often views her surroundings through a skewed point of view. Because Willis is a communist‚ she tries to belittle anything positive about a democratic organization. Having such a biased opinion makes Susans remarks fairly invalid. At the very beginning of Willis’s essay she says “spontaneity is so great that spontaneity itself has been programmed.”Not even
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Elizabeth Nolan November 24‚ 2012 English essay Favorite Play “Trifles”‚ a play by Susan Gaspell‚ is a story of women banding together to protect one another in a male dominated society. The play is titled “Trifles” because women’s concerns were often considered mere trifles‚ and not worth the thought and time of men. The use of theme‚ symbolism‚ and irony are the reasons why this play is so appealing‚ especially to women. “Trifles” contains themes of female identity
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1. The space in the world of Trifles is very enclosed and isolated. The remoteness of the crime scene reveals that there was little to no interaction between Mrs.Wright and the outside world. Thus‚ her dilemma with domestic violence is highlighted in the small‚ cramped farmhouse that the play takes place in. The small amount of space in the play is a metaphor for the suffering that Mrs.Wright had to deal with alone. 2. The time in the world of Trifles seems to stand still as the play focuses
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Gender and gender roles play a center role in Trifles as they dictate how the characters behave‚ emphasizing the differences between men and women in this time period. The men are labeled as the workers/investigators who are dominant in this society while the women are subordinate/lower status individuals that are confined to the home and feminine concerns. Mr. Hale even claims that he “didn’t know as what his wife wanted made much of a difference…” when referring to Mr. and Mrs. Wright (1108 Trifles)
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Trifles (1916) by Susan Glaspell The central action in the play “Trifles” is the murder of Mr. Wright. While the men search the house for clues to prove that Mrs. Wright was the culprit‚ the women start taking notice of the drab condition of their surroundings in the kitchen. As the men pass through during their investigation they stop momentarily to fling sexist comments toward the women. For example: “Well‚ women are used to worrying over trifles”‚ which ties directly into the origin of the play’s
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Trifles Susan Glaspell wrote her one act play to show women of all ages that women can too thrive to be more than just some one who does all of the household chores and takes care of their husband and children. The Stage directions of the play are a large role in affecting the mood of the play. The stage directions are a crucial component of a play. The court attorney believes just the opposite of what Susan Glaspell is trying to exude. He believes that women should always be neat‚ quiet‚ clean
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Trifles by Susan Glaspell Literary devices used in the ‘ Trifles’ Symbolism - to express meaning indirectly. Example: An undone quilt Though the women are laughed at when they are discussing if Mrs Wright is going to quilt it or knot it‚ this really shows the reader what marriages were like at the beginning of the 1900s. Men see women as tedious and uninterested in the affairs of "important matters concerning men only"‚ and the fact that the women are the ones who found the actual evidence
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suffrage movement was all about. Life in the rural Midwest of the century was a lonely‚ difficult‚ and depressing way of life…….. The twentieth century was difficult for women. Bailey L. McDaniel states‚ “The isolation and despondency with which Glaspell characterizes Minnie Wright ’s existence is not far from the reality that many farmers would have experienced‚ with no telephones or televisions‚ miles between the nearest neighbor‚ and backbreaking work a necessity just to survive” (1). Women would
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their husband or significant other. Three similar short stories that portray the acts of women that killed or may have killed their husband are “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell‚ “ and “Midnight Assassin”‚ by Patricia Bryan and Thomas Wolf. The short story “A Jury of Her Peers written by Susan Glaspell in 1917 tells of a murder mystery of a man who was killed in bed with his wife lying next to him when he was killed. The men who were investigating the murder could not piece together
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