Trifles Can be Just As Important As Murder John Wooden, a college basketball coach, once said, “It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.” In this quote lies the importance of the title Trifles, by Susan Glaspell, written in 1916. In her one-act play, characters such as Lewis Hale, a neighboring farmer, Henry Peters, the sheriff, and George Henderson, the county attorney, are all in on the hunt to find the murderer of a fellow farmer, John Wright. The wives of
Trifles is a one-act play written by Susan Glaspell in 1916. In the play, Glaspell makes great use of irony, symbolism, and metaphors, she also makes a great play for the newly emerging feminist movement. We first see women’s suffrage and fight for equal rights taking root in the 1840’s, and then in the 1890’s a movement, termed the Feminist movement, began to take place. This movement advocates women’s suffrage and fight for equal rights, and challenges the long-standing nature of the “female role”
Susan Glaspell's, Trifles, and Tom Stoppard's, The Real Inspector Hound, are both about a murder mystery, however there are many aspects of the two plays that are different, such as the setting, style, and tone of the plots. Glaspell and Stoppard both had different influences that helped to make them and their writing famous. Susan Glaspell is an early twentieth century playwright who had a knack for acting and a gift for writing plays. Glaspell was influenced by her mid-western history such as
world if they wanted to. “Trifles” and “The Ice Palace” examples of the change that happened
Lauren Passmore Julie Faulkner Comp 2 2 December 2014 Sexism Exists In today’s world, it is not unusual for women to commit crimes, work crime cases or even solve them. During the time period that Trifles by Susan Glaspell was written women were not thought capable of doing such things. Susan Glaspell uses Minnie Wright’s character to display the role of women in the early twentieth century. Glaspell was very aware and active when dealing with feminism issues. Glaspell was influenced by getting
In the year 1916, Susan Glaspell had written her very first play. That play was titled as Trifles. The one-act play was based of the murder case of John Hossack. Trifles does a good job of retelling what happened during the case. Rather than the play being identical in detail to the events that took place during the case, Glaspell changed some details of what actually happened during the case so that it would work for the one-act drama. Glaspell took interest in the Hossack case and wrote a one-act
author, such as Susan Glaspell’s Trifles. In Glaspell’s Trifles, it is evident that there is a difference in gender roles between the men and the women. Glaspell uses a story where a woman is the murderer, to demonstrate the roles of women during that century. The roles that were given to the women were provided by the men in this play. Those roles were dispersed to them on behalf of the men that believed that women were only concerned with little unimportant things or so-called trifles. This concept
believe in Mrs. Peters. This man thinks that women cannot be trusted and is scared that women will destroy the evidence. In the “The ‘Trifles’ of Feminism,” Christina McClure states that “women’s voices are not heard and when they are, there opinions and concerns are dismissed, regardless of their importance.” McClure realizes that men do not respect the women in “Trifles”, as the men always suspicious with the women. Not only that, the County Attorney, as a man, also wants to dominate the woman by
Mrs. Wright is the main character in Susan Glaspell's "Trifles". This story deals with a woman who has snapped because she has lost control of her emotions and kills her controlling husband. She had been isolated from the entire community. She is also upset at the fact that she can’t even to go to church to gatherings or socialize with others. There’s a moment in the story when Mr. Wright loses his temper with Mrs. Wright and kills her canary, when kills the canary the story shows that as a representation
with their feelings while men with hard facts. In Susan Glaspell’s Trifles, the County Attorney, Sheriff, and Mr. Hale, a farmer, are at John and Minnie Wright’s farmhouse investigating John’s murder who they believe was killed by Minnie but are unable to find a motive. Along with them, Mrs. Peters and Mrs.Hale, the sheriff and Mr. Hale’s wives, are there to gather things for Minnie while she is in jail. Although the men investigating John’s murder believe that Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale are being