The one act play Trifles written by Susan Glaspell 1225 1236 is based on the actual events occurring at the turn of the century in a small town in Iowa A local famer John Wright was found dead and a murder mystery exploded with in the town At first the murder is assumed to be done by burglars who killed him in his sleep strangling him with a rope around the neck After the sheriffs investigation the evidence suggested that his wife of over thirty years is guilty of the crime Ultimately Minnie Wr
Indirect suicide In Susan Glaspells Trifles Minnie Wright is a woman who when was young was once outgoing and lively until she married a harsh cold hearted and anti social farmer Her isolation and her husbands cruelty slowly drove her to murder her husband she tried to have some sort of happiness But Mr Wright kills the only thing that makes her happy Susan Glaspell is trying to say that Mr Wrights murder is then inevitable and justified Glaspell shows in this play that because of Mr Wrights co
During the time period that Susan Glaspell wrote Trifles women were seen as the weaker less intelligent sex Glaspell uses irony to illustrate a story in which men and women vary greatly in their observations but it is the women who observe the trivial details and eventually discover the truth Irony is used in Trifles to contrast the difference between the crystallized intelligence expected of men and the intuitional intelligence expected of women By contrasting these two types of intelligence t
Susan Glaspells play Trifles is a murder mystery drama that stresses the importance of evidence to solve a crime Two professionals sheriff Henry Peters and George Henderson a county attorney are searching for obvious evident incriminating evidence that they overlook trifles However wives of Mr Wrights close friends pick up on the small clues of the mystery In the end these two women solve the murder but do not tell anyone Two of the biggest pieces of evidences are Mrs Wrights bird and her past
Little Things Mean a Lot in Trifles Susan Glaspells play Trifles explores the fact that women pay attention to the little things that may lead to the solving of a bigger problem Why are women so into the little things The attention to detail seems to be the starting point to solving the bigger problem Little things can be seen as pieces of a puzzle When the small pieces come together you see the bigger picture In the play Trifles the men seem to think the women only worry about the little thing
Well women are used to worrying over trifles line 465 This quote from Susan Glaspells play Trifles defines the tone of the entire play The play is about a murder and how men and women will cover for their own sex even if it means lying about something important Therefore the tone of this play has a demeaning attitude towards women and this quote emphasizes this point of the author The play Trifles explores the idea that women might pay attention to small trivial things that could lead to solvin