Susan Glaspell

Susan Glaspell was an important figure in drama and playwriting; specifically, Glaspell was an important figure in drama, writing the plays “The Verge”, “Alison’s House” and “Trifles”, with “Alison’s House” winning the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Glaspell’s work is often considered some of the greatest plays in American drama. Glaspell often wrote from a feminist perspective in her writings. This perspective is evident in “Trifles”. Glaspell’s feminism is a large part in “Trifles”, which certainly

‘Trifles’ by Susan Glaspell and ‘Florence’ by Alice Childress touch the two most important subject of American History. One is women’s right and other is racism. ‘Trifles’ by Susan Glaspell is written in early twentieth century. Around that time, women are considered to be only good to have children and take care of the household and their husband. Susan Glaspell’s play criticizes this preventive social behavior toward women. On the other hand, ‘Florence’ by Alice Childress is written in mid twentieth

Franklin English Composition II 5 December 2017 Intro...Thesis...potential synopsis of stories Susan Glaspell was born in 1882 in the small town of Davenport, Iowa. After she graduated from Drake University, she worked as a journalist for Des Moines Daily News. She stopped working in the newspaper industry when her stories began to appear in magazines such as The Ladies Home Journal. In 1915 Glaspell met a man named George Cook, who was a stage director, and together they established The Provincetown

thoroughly. I have decided to use Trifles by Susan Glaspell for my paper. As a person who loves literature, I tend to gravitate more towards the seemingly simple but very complex plots. I ended up loving the concept and the base for the short play. Not only is the play packed with symbolism, but the play is based on a real life murder case; just like the ending of the story, Kilifi Creek, was based on a real accident. I liked the creativity Susan Glaspell uses to depict the themes she wants readers

Trifles by Susan Glaspell This compelling play is about the investigation at the farmhouse of John and Minnie Wright after his murder. The sheriff, county attorney, and neighbor discuss the evidence and look at the crime scenes to try and discover the murderer and motive. The sheriff and neighbor's wives remain in the kitchen where through looking at Mrs. Wright's sewing basket and cupboards they discover the truth of the crime. The setting is a small rural farmhouse that appears isolated from its

Susan Glaspell is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who composed the phenomenal play “Trifles” in 1916. The concept of the play came about while she was reminiscing about the Hossack’s murder case. Glaspell created five central characters to bring the play to life on stage who are George Henderson¬¬—county attorney, Henry Peters—sheriff, Lewis Hale—a neighboring farmer, Mrs. Peters, and Mrs. Hale. A terse overview of the play includes Mr. Hale visiting the Wright’s farmhouse to preferably

In the play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell she believes the theme is that men underestimate how smart women are. To begin, the sheriff and county attorney are looking around the house when the sheriff says “Nothing here but kitchen things”. This is an example of situational irony because the sheriff expects that there is nothing there but later in the story the opposite happens and the two women find very important evidence that could solve the murder case. This supports the theme by showing that the

intelligent than the average man, according to the government during the 1900’s. The men were usually responsible for being brave, strong and fearless. Along with having the benefit of their word or what men say goes. The 1912 play Trifles, by Susan Glaspell, who was inspired to write this play from a story she covered as a reporter. A murder case is being held and authorities are getting down to it suspecting a woman of killing her husband in his sleep. The character Mrs. Hale who is neighbors and

reporters, Susan Glaspell, decided to write a literary version of this investigation and “Trifles” came to be. Susan Glaspell is a feminist writer from Davenport, Iowa who started off writing for a newspaper called Des Moines Daily News. Later on her literary career she left the journalism industry and founded a theatrical organization called ‘Provincetown Players’ on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. In Trifles, Glaspell covers issues regarding female oppression and patriarchal domination. Susan Glaspell’s

divisions based on the imbalance of power in each. In Susan Glaspell’s Trifles, she tells not the story of a murder case, but an example of war from one of these divisions in the late 1900s--the gender division. Within the text, the author uses the characterization of the men, symbolism of the bird cage, and denouement of the plot to explain the gender conflict that ensues from the walls that were built to divide men and women. Throughout the story, Glaspell characterizes the men by negative, and even insulting