The one-act play by Susan Glaspell called Trifles tells a short story. Not only was her play, “A Jury of Her Peers” adapted from the production several months after its amazing opening debut, but it was known all over. The play was executed by Provincetown Players at the Wharf Theatre in Provincetown in Massachusetts on August eight, 1916. The play Trifles was a very inspirational play that involved important themes, a lot of symbols, and essential setting points. The sheriff Henry Peters and
Susan Glaspell does a fantastic job at making her story “A Jury of Her Peers” capture her audience’s and keep their eyes glued to her words, and her play Trifles is great and keeping the readers on the edge of their seats. Imagine eavesdropping on people who are talking about something scandalous, like a woman killing her husband. Hearing something like that would have the listener go “ooh” and interest them, but there is not much to know besides what is being said with little-to-no background information
In the first quarter of the play, Mr. Hale, the Sheriff, and the County Attorney show that men are dominant. Before the County Attorney goes upstairs with Mr. Hale and the Sheriff, the County Attorney has a conversation with Mrs. Peters. “Yes, but I like to see what you take, Mrs. Peters, and keep an eye out for anything that might be of use to us” (Glaspell 920). This sentence from the County Attorney shows that he does not believe in Mrs. Peters. This man thinks that women cannot be trusted and
during the present setting. Whether an individual starts walking a certain way or someone leaves the current presence, personalities often drastically change. As we depict through the words of both Edith Wharton’s, “Roman Fever” and Susan Glaspell’s, “A Jury of Her Peers” we are set to define how movement and the story’s setting interact to portray a certain tone of each character involved. As each story progresses, we notice that both stories settings play a major role in the nature and detail with
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”
appearance in similar text, they have different meanings. While sympathy is feeling compassion, sorrow, or pity for the hardships that another person encounters, empathy involves putting yourself in in the shoes of another. In Susan Glaspell’s short story, A Jury of Her Peers, Martha Hale demonstrates both of these commonly confused words. Martha Hale, the wife of Mr. Hale, is a resident of the farm close to the property of the Wrights’. Mrs.Hale used to be good friends with Mrs.Wright, commonly