Effect Of Duty, Law, And Justice In Susan Glaspell's Trifles

Susan Glaspell's Trifles is a play about the effect of gender differences on perceptions of duty, law, and justice. When a character named John Wright was murdered, the Sheriff and County Attorney go to investigate his house, as it was believed his wife murdered him. As the two investigate, the Sheriff brought his wife Mrs. Peters and the neighbor of the Wrights that reported the event, Lewis Hale, brought his wife Mrs. Hale also to the house. While the women stayed in the house, they started to talk about Mr. Wright’s murder, which the story mainly focuses on their conversation. They talk about why Mrs. Wright would murder her husband, the treatment Mr. Wright gave to his wife, and the justice which was being served to Mrs. Wright and the