“Trifles” written by Susan Glaspell explores the oppressive nature of an enduring patriarchal hierarchy coinciding with the extensive psychological damage solidarity imposed on farmers’ wives throughout the 20th century; Glaspell utilized the symbol/image of a bird to juxtapose/compare/contrast the death of Mrs. Wright’s canary to the death of Mrs. Wright’s soul. Denotatively a bird is defined as, any of a class (Aves) of warm-blooded vertebrates distinguished by having the body more or less completely
nothings, busy work, trifles are all a respectable lady is good for socially and mentally that is all they can wrap their minds around. That, at least, has been the case for most of society’s history, including 1916, the year in which Susan Glaspell called attention to this warped viewpoint and passive aggressively insinuated its faults. Using physical symbols of emotional and mental distress, juxtaposition, and irony between the two groups’ missions and interactions, Susan Glaspell challenges the status
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”
The play Trifles by Susan Glaspell is crucial in the indication of the dynamic conflict which brings tension in some serious situations which are trifling. In the play, a man has been killed by his wife. Men and women who get in the place of the scene see the action on different perspectives. What each set of the group sees the scene is limited to the gender. Women are seen to notice some things such as the preserved fruits, a bird cage that is empty and a sewing box which men had overlooked entirely
The play, Trifles, written by Susan Glaspell is about a murder that had taken place inside a married couple’s own bedroom, Mr. and Mrs. Wright. But, the play’s scene is centered on the kitchen. The play was written in the 20th century when women’s rights were not viewed the same as men. With that being said, this play shows the reader how female identity differs greatly from male’s. Women got their identity from their relationship to men which was viewed as the dominant gender. A woman was essentially
earth. One of the best plays that fits that description would have to be Susan Glaspell’s Trifles. Trifles tells the story of a murder that takes place in a small town coming from the most unlikeliest of places and unlikeliest of suspects. This play brings gender issues to the forefront of the mystery taking place. Women have the chance to stand by their sister or tell the men the truths they