Susan Glaspell

In the short story, “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell, the author illustrates the oppression of wives in the early 1900’s through the murder of John Wright. The women in the story are able to comprehend Minnie Foster’s motive while their husbands are unable to figure it out. The implications of this is that the women understand Minnie in ways the men don’t. The way the characters react to each other and their surroundings provides insight to their points of view and state of mind. Through subtle

nineteenth century women had less of a voice when it came to making decisions all the decision making were usually left to the men especially in relationships. The short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell are two pieces of fictional literature that exhibit the roles of women in a marriage during the period. In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” the reader reads about a woman who has been in a room for the summer to cure her sickness of nervous

Sound “I sleep sound” (Glaspell 619). Those are the words of a woman defending herself against a horrific crime. Sound: it is a word that strikes us as something that might keep us up at night. In the correct context, it obviously implies noise. ‘That is an annoying sound,’ or ‘that sound is deafening.’ These are what we think of when we hear the word, sound. Susan Glaspell’s play, “Trifles,” covers a crime scene including one witness, Mr. Frank Hale, who quotes the only suspect in a case involving

In the play Trifles, by Susan Glaspell, the plot develops through action. As soon as the play begins readers and viewers are introduced to the county attorney, the sheriff, and Mr. Hale. Due to the fact that these three men discuss the case and death of Mr. Wright quite a bit, the audience is made to believe that they are the main characters of the play. However; the true protagonists of the play are revealed as soon as the men departure from the kitchen and leave the characters Mrs. Peters and Mrs

differences. “The Real Inspector Hound”, a play written in 1961 by Tom Stoppard is a play within a play, consisting of narratives of the critics watching the play, and the play they are reviewing. In contrast, “Trifles” was written in 1916 by Susan Glaspell and builds upon the murder investigation of John Wright. While, both plays were influenced from distinctive

When Susan Glaspell wrote this short story, in 1916, women were not only barred from jury service, they could not even vote for public officials. Why, then, do you think she chose this title for her story? What do you think it means? First, men cannot see the effort that women put into their family, and they are not able to go through what women have to go through. Man is the authority, but only women can be the peers of each other when have the understanding and empathy for their peers. Outside

The novella Ethan Frome, the play Trifles, and the book Great Short Stories by American Women, and the play Trifles contain many short stories by early American feminists many of which are socially progressive. Some of the stories in the book of short stories “Transcendental Wild Oats”, and “My Mysterious Mademoiselle”. In Ethan Frome although the main character in the story is a male it is still feminist literature due to the females in the story being what moves the story along. In this novella

psyche. Oppressing and locking away a person's true nature or desires can cause someone to act in way that he or she has never behaved before. When done by a loved one, it can affect a person even more. In William Faulkner's “A Rose for Emily” and Susan Glaspell's “Trifles”, two different women are kept mentally and physically locked away by a person who is supposed to love and protect them. Though Emily and Mrs. Wright

In Trifles playwright Susan Glaspell writes about a woman who murdered her husband on a cold winters day in the 1900s. The play takes place in the farmhouse where Mr. and Mrs. Wright lived. Two women and their husbands go to the farmhouse a few days after they discover that Mr. Wright has been murdered. The men look for evidence to prove that Mrs. Wright is the one who murdered her husband while the wives gather things to take to Mrs. Wright who has been put in jail. The play opens up with a scene

Whose side are you on? The men’s? Or the women’s? In “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell, the women are more observant than the men. The women in the play discover Mrs. Wright’s motives for the murder of her husband. The sexist and rude men are preoccupied by the bigger problem when they should be looking for small details that lead to the bigger problem. The women in the play are observant. For example when the men are looking for evidence in the kitchen the women take notice