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Trifles
In Susan Glaspell's Trifles, the little dead bird is significant for these reasons: The bird's neck has been wrung just as the neck of Mr. Wright has had a rope tied around it, choking him to death...
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Trifles
Trifles, first performed in 1916, is a one-act play by the American author Susan Glaspell. The play is frequently anthologized in literature textbooks for its dramatic tension and stark depictions...
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Trifles
The murder was justified if Mrs. Wright killed her husband in self-defense. It is always difficult to say what justifies one person killing another, but there is evidence that Mrs. Wright might...
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The main thematic concern of the play is patriarchy's devaluing of women. Patriarchal abuse is shown through what happens to Minnie Wright. She has had her spirit crushed by her grim husband, who...
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On the surface, it might seem right to condemn Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters for obstructing justice. After all, the two women suppress a crucial piece of evidence that offers a motive for Mrs. Wright...
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Gaspell does use dialogue as exposition. As Minnie Wright is not on scene to tell her story, much of it comes from the background that Mrs. Hale provides. Mrs. Hale knew her as a young person, and...
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In Trifles, the two female protagonists, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale, discuss the fate of a third woman, Mrs. Wright, who does not appear on stage. It is evident that Mrs. Wright has been treated...
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In Susan Glaspell's play Trifles, the men overlook the signs that are obvious because they are not looking for them. They concentrate on finding evidence of someone coming into the house but fail...
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In Susan Glaspell's play Trifles, several neighbors enter the Wrights' farmhouse to investigate the murder of John Wright, and Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters end up discovering significant evidence...
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Mrs. Hale and Minnie Foster Wright grew up together. Mrs. Hale remembers the unmarried Minnie as a bright, happy, pretty young woman who liked to sing, comparing her to a canary. Mrs. Hale says:...
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The one-act play Trifles by Susan Glaspell is about a murder investigation that takes place in a remote farmhouse. Mrs. Wright has been arrested and accused of strangling her husband with a length...
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Trifles
The title of the play refers to the “trifling” details that the men who enter the Wright’s farmhouse to investigate the murder of John Wright ignore. In their eagerness to find John’s wife, Minnie,...
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The ladies find the dead bird in the sewing basket. They realize both that Mr. Wright killed the bird, and that it was what caused Minnie to kill him. When John Wright is murdered, his wife does...
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In Susan Glaspell's play Trifles, the sheriff, county attorney, and neighboring farmer arrive at the Wright homestead to investigate the murder of Mr. Wright. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters tag along to...
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Throughout the play, the men laugh at the women for their interest in what they consider "trifles" of no importance. For example, as the play is beginning, the sheriff, Henry Peters, laughs at the...
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John Wright has been murdered, and Sheriff Henry Peters and county attorney George Henderson have come to the Wright home to investigate after John's wife, Minnie, has been arrested for the murder....
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The primary reason that Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters withhold the evidence from the sheriff and the attorney is that they do not want it to be used to subject Mrs. Wright to an even more unjust trial...
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In the one-act play Trifles by Susan Glaspell, Mr. Hale tells the story of the murder discovery to the county attorney George Henderson and Sheriff Henry Peters. The women have accompanied the men...
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Mrs. Hale is the wife of Lewis Hale; a farmer who is the only witness to the the aftermath of the murder of John Wright by his estranged wife, Minnie. A character with no first name, Mrs. Hale is a...
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Trifles
Susan Glaspell's play is set in the early years of the 1900s in rural Iowa in an isolated farmhouse. Both female characters, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, do not have given names other than their...
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The women in Trifles look at the work of a farm wife through a different lens than the men do. One example of this comes out when the country attorney, George Henderson, is dismissive and insulting...
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In Glaspell's play, the "trifles" are the quilt with erratic stitching, the bird cage, and the dead canary in a pretty little box. Ironically, the "trifles" found in the kitchen are key items to...
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Trifles
In Susan Glaspell's play Trifles, Minnie Wright is guilty of murdering her abusive husband John by tying a rope around his neck and strangling him in his sleep. While Sheriff Henry Peters, George...
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The bird itself is the main symbol in Trifles. Just as Mr. Wright literally choked the life out of Minnie Wright, he also destroyed his wife's spirit. Mrs. Hale mentions that Minnie "used to wear...
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The women in Trifles are portrayed as hesitant and timid when around the men, who are depicted as more confident. The stage directions describe Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peter, entering the Wright's...
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Since only about one percent or fewer of Americans still earn their living through family farming, it is unlikely that a farm setting would be chosen as typical of the American experience. It would...
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The principal social issues in Trifles are domestic abuse and various matters related to the punishment of crime. The issue of domestic abuse is clear. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters discover that John...
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It is clear in this excellent play that the person who killed John Wright was actually Minnie Wright, his long suffering wife who had changed so much through her marriage to her husband and the...
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In Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are both married women who apparently do not have jobs outside the home, but they are different in several notable aspects: their...
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Trifles is a forensic drama, which means that the previous actions of John and Minnie Wright are uncovered as the play progresses. At the beginning of the play, all the audience knows is that John...
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Susan Glaspell’s short story “A Jury of Her Peers,” written in 1917, is based on her play Trifles, written in 1916. Both pieces of literature are loosely based on Glaspell’s own experience as a...
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For a charcter to be round, you need to be able to identify with that character and be able to see that character as a person. Both Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are real women. Mrs. Hale is the...
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Trifles and "The Applicant" both create unappealing pictures of marriage without direct contributions from either of the participants. In Trifles, John Wright is dead at the beginning of the play...
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In Susan Glapell's "Trifles," the male tone is one of condescension: they belittle the females directly and indirectly. Observe the County Attorney's mention of the mess in the kitchen: it is an...
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The murder of Minnie Wright's husband was the consequence of pent up, disturbed and emotional chaos caused by an extended period of domestic violence. Minnie was isolated in the middle of nowhere....
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In its presentation and content, realistic drama strives to preserve the illusion of real, everyday life. Susan Glaspell's Trifles, first performed in 1916 and based upon a true story of a woman...
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Mrs. Peter undergoes a very interesting transformation throughout the story. First, she is not a personal friend of Minnie's and has no clue about the suffering that this woman had undergone by her...
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Trifles by Susan Glaspell was based on an actual event that she wrote about as a reporter. The focus of the play is the chauvinistic views of the men toward the women. In fact, the title of the...
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Crucially, the biggest literary element that is utilised in this excellent play is irony. You cannot really grasp the message of the play if you do not identify that there is a conflict between men...
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Trifles
Trifles is a play by Susan Glaspell. It was put on stage for the first time in 1916. The play deals with the death of Mr. Wright—the characters in the play are trying to figure out who killed him....
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The materials and creative effort that were incorporated into Minnie Wright’s quilting project are two factors that catch both Mrs. Hale’s and Mrs. Stephen’s fancy. Mrs. Hale has the idea of...
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When Mrs. Peters says that the law must punish crime, Mrs. Hale replies: I wish you'd seen Minnie Foster when she wore a white dress with blue ribbons and stood up there in the choir and...
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The place of Susan Glaspell's play, Trifles, is a farmhouse in rural Iowa; the development of the plot occurs mainly in the kitchen.The time is the winter of 1900. Interestingly, Glaspell...
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Everyone will react differently to a work of literature, so I can only give you my informed opinion. In thinking about "Trifles," you might want to consider it in light of your own social location:...
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By showing the basic differences in how men and women think, act, and relate to others, Glaspell gives the reader a picture of sisterhood. The women are there to get things for the woman accused of...
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Trifles
We, of course, are not using the word “tragedy” here strictly in the Aristotelian sense of the word—no high figure falling from a high place, etc.—but we can ask whether a tragedy has occurred here...
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More than anything else, Mrs. Hale is motivated by guilt. She's always regretted not having reached out to her neighbor, Minnie Foster, by visiting her more often. As Mrs. Hale takes a good look...
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Some of the "trifles" that the men miss are the arrangement of things in the kitchen, such as the breadbasket. The emptiness of the bird cage is another "small" thing that the men in the play, the...
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Similarities: Both women, in the end by protecting Minnie Wright, demonstrate a weariness of male condescension and a "stick-together" mentality. They are willing to keep information from their...
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In Susan Glaspell's play titled, "Trifles," the minor roles are those of the men. This would include the County Attorney, the Sheriff, and Mr. Hale. Though minor characters, their roles are...
