Tymeria Franklin Written Comp. Chris Bailey 4 April 2014 In the play “Trifles”‚ the police are investigating the scene. Lewis Hale tells how he discovered Mrs. Wright was acting weird when she told him that her husband was murdered while she was sleeping. Although a gun had been in the house‚ Mrs. Wright had been strangled with a rope. While the men are investigating upstairs‚ the women discover an empty birdcage and eventually finds the dead bird in a box in Mrs. Wright’s sewing basket while
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Destructive Effects of Male-Female Relationships Portrayed in the Writings of Susan Glaspell Susan Glaspell‚ born in 1882 in Iowa‚ is a name commonly unknown amongst the popular group; however‚ it is a name that was once very popular and now it has become virtually forgotten. Many feminist critics including Linda Ben-Zvi have taken up the role of bringing Glaspell’s work back into the main stream. Over the career of Glaspell‚ she wrote nine novels‚ more than fifty short stories‚ and published fourteen
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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). Mr. Hale is blatantly
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The play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell takes place in a bleak‚ untidy kitchen of a farmhouse. Farmer John Wright has been murdered and his wife‚ Minnie Wright‚ is taken into custody as a suspect to his murder. Sheriff Peters and County Attorney George Henderson pride themselves on their powers of detection and logical reasoning. They begin searching through the house trying to find any sort of evidence. But it is the two women‚ Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale‚ who discover the trifles in which is the key
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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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Psychoanalysis of Trifles A.Wilson South University Online In the short play Trifles by Susan Glaspell there is a deeper way of evaluating characters and symbols within the story. The Character I will attempt to evaluate will be Mrs. Wright. I will evaluate Mrs. Wright using a psychoanalysis‚ meaning I will probe deep within Mrs. Wright’s mind and feelings to reveal some things to you that you may not have noticed by just reading the story‚ or using your naked eye. I will be attempting to show
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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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The Structure of Trifles Susan Glaspell‚ author of the play Trifles quickly grabs the audience’s attention by her use of details about the set. The set is in complete disarray and noted by County Attorney when he says “Not much of a housekeeper‚ would you say‚ ladies?” The story centers around five individuals who are inside the home of a woman who is suspected of murdering her husband. Three men (a neighbor‚ a sheriff‚ and a county attorney) are walking around the home trying to
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People viewed men as the workers who bring home the money and are more powerful and capable of doing things. Women were viewed as housekeepers‚ basically to stay home all day‚ clean the house‚ prepare food‚ and take care of the kids. In Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles” Gender roles were shown through how men and women think‚ their “capabilities”‚ and intelligence. All of the action in the play takes place in the home of the former Mr. John Wright and his wife Minnie Wright‚ who is being held
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The play Trifles‚ by Susan Glaspell is a murder mystery. Critic "Gary A. Richardson says that in Trifles‚ Glaspell developed a new structure for her action." (Kirszner and Mandell 1121) Richardson claims that "Trifles is carefully crafted to match Glaspell’s subject matter- the action meanders‚ without a clearly delineated beginning‚ middle‚ or end.." (qtd. in Kirszner and Mandell 1121) Upon closer inspect we can clearly see that Glaspell does indeed have a beginning‚ middle and end‚ and the action
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