Antihero In Susan Glaspell's Trifles

Susan Glaspell’s work in “trifles” gives the reader an example of an antihero. With Minnie Wright as one of the main characters, and fulfilling some of the qualities and characteristics that Aristoteles describes as tragic hero, such as tragic flaw, noble stature and the punishment exceeds the crime. That way it can be said that she forms part of the description.
As the reader keeps reading it shows Minnie’s attitude and how peculiar it turns out to be, shows Minnie’s tragic flaw… When Mr. Hale enters the house and says “’I want to see john’. And then she laughs. I guess you would call it a laugh. I thought of Harry and the team outside, so I said a little sharp: ‘Can’t I see John?’ ‘No, she says’ kind of dull like. ‘Ain’t he home?’ Says I.
Regarding the text, there is not concrete evidence to prove she is guilty, but it can be continue to assume that she is guilty because she is not affected at all, and she has an answer for every argument. This Peculiar behavior shows her tragic flaw. It can be said that Minnie Wright is a tragic hero because when she was Minnie Foster she had a noble stature by being well known by everyone and being part of the choir, but when she got married to John Wright, that changed. She lost her noble stature and her marriage became a punishment, therefore the punishment exceeds the crime. Mrs. Hale mentions that Minnie Foster was a noble stature when she says “I heard she used to wear pretty clothes and be lively, when she was Minnie Foster, one of those girls singing in the choir” (Glaspell 1394). It can be said that she was well-known by the town and people, and recognized because of the choir. It is confirmed when she says “I wish you’d seen Minnie Foster when she wore a dress with blue ribbons and stood up there in the choir and sang”. Once again it is mention that Minnie Foster was a noble stature. She loses her noble stature when she