In Trifles‚ Susan Glaspell describes the murder scene of a farmer‚ John Wright‚ and the attempts to prove that his wife‚ Mrs. Wright‚ committed the act. The sheriff and his wife‚ a neighboring farmer with his wife‚ and the male county attorney all examine the scene. The men look for the physical evidence directly correlated to the murder‚ such as the victim’s location and manner of death‚ while the women examine several common household items like Mrs. Wright’s unfinished quilt and empty birdcage
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reporter‚ covered the court case and conviction of a woman accused of murdering her abusive husband. Based on these events‚ her play is a social commentary put into the form of a murder mystery. In it‚ a man‚ John Wright‚ is strangled to death in bed next to his wife‚ Minnie Foster Wright‚ who had allegedly slept right through his murder. The neighbors begin searching for clues‚ but it becomes apparent that some of them are attempting to cover something up. The viewers of the play are then faced with
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limited rights in the 19th century through symbolism. The play took place in winter in the abandoned kitchen of John Wright. Mr. Wright is a farmer and was murdered in the middle of the night as he lay asleep. The prime suspect for the crime was John Wright’s wife‚ Minnie Wright. Although Mrs. Wright claims that someone slipped a rope round his head and strangled him‚ Mrs. Wright had the most motive in the murder of her husband. Although the men search around the house looking for necessary evidences
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made much of a difference…” when referring to Mr. and Mrs. Wright (1108 Trifles). Mr. Hale is blatantly stating that a woman’s opinion and practically all women as individuals do not matter in this male dominated society. As a result‚ the men are overly arrogant and believe that Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are too fixated on
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In the play Trifles gender plays a huge part. When the detectives were looking for evidence or "motives" of why Mrs. Wright killed her husband they often times belittled the women. As the women searched for the small things that contributed to Mr. Wright’s death the men were looking at the bigger picture. In the end because the men brushed the women off‚ not taking into consideration their advice‚ the women ended up finding the real motive while the detectives totally missed it. In the play Fences
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Holstein asserts that the two women were not just mindlessly helping a fellow woman‚ but instead were reliving her [Mrs. Wright] sad and seemingly abusive life (Holstein). Holstein brings the reader’s attention to the mundane details that in the dialogue between the women such as describing Mr. Wright as a “raw wind” (Glaspell 1723). The two wives more than just empathize with Mrs. Wright‚ they “identify with her.” Holstein brings the reader’s attention to the fact the both women defend the messy farmhouse
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Wright‚ and Mrs. Hale‚ who tries to “help” her. When the county attorney finds Mr. Wright deceased in his home‚ and Mrs. Wright sitting down with no emotion‚ in the same room‚ he finds it extremely suspicious. When he asked her what happened‚ Mrs. Wright admits to the crime of murder‚ and becomes the prime suspect. When investigating the crime scene‚ the county attorney and the
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against Mrs. Wright. The women in the play outsmarted the men by just hiding these evidences. And the play basically revolved around these unimportant things that also judge Minnie Foster. Jury of Her Peers on the other hand reveals two major themes from the whole demotion of women; the feminist community (“her Peers”) who practically determined Mrs. Wright’s future and legalism (“Jury”). The short story revolved around the whole process of the feminist community helping Mrs. Wright to be acquitted
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play‚ however the attorney shows up. Also in the scene the men approach the home‚ where Mr. Wright was murdered‚ as the detective while the women approach it as a home. In this particular condition‚ the men are there as detectives and are there to find some sort of evidence in the home to blame Mrs. Wright. The women are there to get the availability of individual effect that they need to pass on to Mrs. Wright‚ who has been confined. The way the women and the men see the bad behavior is unique. The
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impression of these character change and why * What caused the changes * Talk about Mrs Wright being a little shady * Is she the murderer? * What the men missed and why * They’re rude demeanor * They’re “better than women” mindset * Led to them losing out on important and useful clues Paragraph 3: * How important were the women in the case * The men were so hard headed and did not care about
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