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  • Sheriff And Mr Hale To The House
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    Trifles was written in the early 1900's by Susan Glaspell. This occurred far before the women's movement. Women were generally looked upon as possessions to their husbands. Their children, all wages, and belongings were property of their husbands. In Glaspell's story it is easily depicted as to what role the men and women portrayed in society at this time. Glaspell proves her point by a conversation between two women in this story. The women, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale, are at the scene of the mu...
  • Quilt Minnie Foster
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    The Separation Between Sexes Since the time when Eve set herself apart from Adam by consuming the forbidden fruit, there always has been vast differences in the way men and women conduct themselves. These differences are very common among sexes, and are also easy to distinguish. For instance, more women tend to cry in sad movies than men do. This is because women are more emotional than men and can often express their feelings easier. But probably the most popular difference between men and wome...
  • Mr Wright
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    Steven FiorilloThe thesis of this paper is to prove that the title of Susan Glaspell's play "Trifles" represents how men considered women's duties and their opinions to be of little importance compared to a man's role in society. The dictionary defines the word trifle as something of little importance or value, or to deal with something as if it were of little significance or value (The American Heritage Dictionary). The play opens in Minnie Wright's kitchen. Minnie's husband has been murdered, ...
  • Quilt Mrs Wright
    526 words
    Trifles, written by Susan Glaspell, is a real life murder case that uses symbolism to help solve a mystery. Glaspell's use of dialect, set on a midwestern farm, emphasizes the town's gender-separated society. Isolationism, a quilt, and incomplete house work are the three key symbols in the play the help the reader figure out who murdered Mrs. Wright's husband. First of all, isolationism is an important clue in the murder case. Mrs. Wright's farmhouse is located in a hollow, down in the woods, wh...
  • Loyalty To Mrs Hale And Mrs Wright
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    Little Trifles Add Up to a Big Case Detectives are always looking for little pieces of evidence when investigating a crime. After all, it is this evidence that can turn a trial around, whether be it for the good or bad. This is especially the case in Susan Glaspell's Trifles. When Mrs. Hale comes across little pieces of evidence, she passes them off as being 'trifles', hiding them from the detective. She is the sole reason that very little evidence is collected that would convict Mrs. Wright, an...
  • Trifles Of The Farmer's Wife
    337 words
    "The Trifle" by Susan Gla spell is a murder mystery that involves gender relationships, power between the sexes, and the nature of truth. The setting for "The Trifle" is a bleak, untidy kitchen in an abandoned rural farmhouse, quickly establishes the claustrophobic mood of the play. While a cold winter wind blows outside, the characters file in one at a time to investigate a violent murder: the farm's owner, John Wright, was apparently strangled to death while he slept, and his wife, Minnie, has...
  • Remark From The County Attorney About Minnie
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    The Treatment of Women in Trifles 'Trifles,' a one-act play written by Susan Glaspell, is a cleverly written story about a murder and more importantly, it effectively describes the treatment of women during the early 1900's. In the opening scene, we learn a great deal of information about the people of the play and of their opinions. We know that there are five main characters, three men and two women. The weather outside is frighteningly cold, and yet the men enter the warm farmhouse first. The...
  • Mr Hale And The Sheriff
    682 words
    Standing in the abandoned kitchen of John Wright and Minnie Foster (Mrs. Wright), George Henderson offers the two women to warm up around the stove like everyone else. Mrs. Peters, the sheriff's wife turns down the invitation and remains to stand by the door with Mrs. Martha Hale. Mr. Henderson, who is the county attorney, gets right down to business. He asks Mr. Hale what he had seen the day before. He also confirms with the sheriff, Mr. Peters, that nothing in the farmhouse had been moved. Mr....
  • Mrs Wright Around Her Husband's Neck
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    Trifles of fate On the surface, Susan Glaspell's play Trifles focuses on a wife murdering her oppressive husband. The husband is abusing his wife emotionally out on a lonely secluded farm isolated from society in the Midwest. Under the surface, the behaviors of Mrs. Hale, Mrs. Peters, and Mrs. Wright in Glaspell's play to those of Clotho the Spinner, Lachesis the Disposer of Lots, and Atropos the Cutter of the Thread in Fate from Greek mythology (Meak 86). Although Glaspell brings new meaning to...
  • Mrs Wright S Jury
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    James McMaster's English 112 October 17, 2000 A JURY OF HER PEERS – A CHARACTER ANALYSIS BY SUSAN GLASPELL As in the case of most, if not all, good allegorical stories, the primary impact of the tale is strongly influenced by the author's detailed characterization of the setting, as well as the characters? feelings and passions. Certainly such is the case in Susan Glaspell's story? A Jury of Her Peers? Here we see a richness of characterization and setting that is elusive at first reading,...
  • Example Of Mrs Wright
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    Case Dismissed A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Gla spell is a story of a woman named Mrs. Foster-Wright. She was a woman who was taken to jail after a man called Mr. Hale and his son came to see if her husband, Mr. Wright would like to join in with the other neighbors to get a phone. As Mr. Hale comes inside, he notices Mrs. Wright sitting in her chair acting very nervous. He asks her where her husband is and she pointed upstairs. Mr. Hale asked to see him but she says "Cause he's dead' (185). He i...

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