Trifles by Susan Glaspell

Introduction

Susan Glaspell in Context not only Discusses the dramatic work of this key American author perhaps best known for her short story "A Jury of Her Peers" and Its dramatic counterpart, Trifles - but it places within the theatrical, cultural, political social, historical, and biographical climates in Glaspell's dramas which created the worlds of Greenwich Village and Provincetown bohemia, of the American frontier, and of American modernism.

Play Background

Sheriff Henry Peters and the District Attorney George Henderson had come to witness Lewis Hale, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale, John Wright, where police are investigating the murder of Wright. Luis Hale says Mrs. Wright was found strangely, and she told me that her husband was murdered in his sleep. Even if the gun was in the house, Wright strangled a terrible area. masculine woman, and not by chance, but Henderson women can take a few items to Mrs. Wright, who is in the custody, as she believes that the objects are not with her (Keller, pp. 81-87).

While the men are looking for the stairs, Mrs. Hale remembers how happy Mrs. Wright was before his marriage, and she was sorry that they had come to see the suspect Mrs. Wright Despite the lack of luck that the wife of John Wright suffered. After examining the room, the women found a blanket and decide to take it with them, although the men torment them to think coverage as they enter the room for a short time before you check out the barn. At the same time, women find an empty basket and eventually find a dead bird box sewing basket, when Mrs. Wright searches for blanket materials. Bird has been strangled in the same way as John Wright. Although Mrs. Peters dares to make fun of men only in the law, she and Miss Hale decides to hide the evidence, and the men have not found any evidence that it prevents her from being limited to the jury freed the future - suggests the game, the chances of empathetic women. The play was written in 1916, but the reflections contained therein beyond the barriers of time. Based on a short story called "A Jury of Her Peers" (which corresponds to a jury of their peers), Susan Glaspell tells us with much sensitivity as the vision of male and female can be as diverse.

The text puts us in an ...