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The Use of the Kitchen to Portray Gender Roles in the One Act Play, Trifles by Susan Glaspell (321 words, 1 pages)

Susan Glaspell use mostly the kitchen to help her show the readers about gender roles in her story, Trifles. During the period in which the play takes place, womans duties were to keep house--clean, cook, and do other domestic chores. While men were expected to provide for the family. The ... Read More

The Significance of the Dead Bird in the Short Play Trifles by Susan Glaspell (1716 words, 4 pages)

The Significance of a Dead BirdOne mans trifle might be another womans gold. This statement summarizes the message of the short play Trifles, in which Susan Glaspell writes about a murder case in which the investigators, Mr. Peters, the sheriff, and Mr. Henderson, the county attorney, search for hard evidence ... Read More

An Analysis of Women’s Inferiority in Different Aspects of Social Inequality in “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin and in “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell (1463 words, 2 pages)

Jailed and Stuck The authors Kate Chopin of Desiree s Baby and Susan Glaspell of Trifles present a caste system of the 19th century. They both focus upon the theme of the inferiority of women with respect to marriage, gender, and prospective positions in a caste system of society. Actually, ... Read More

An Analysis of the Feminism in Play Trifles by Susan Glaspell (1072 words, 2 pages)

Apparent Feminisms in the Play TriflesMale domination in 1916, when Susan Glaspells play Trifles was written, was the way of life. Men controlled most women and women were not very outspoken during that time period. Mr. Wright in her play was no different from the rest, but she made him ... Read More

A Comparison of Desiree’s Baby by Kate Chopin and Trifles by Susan Glaspell (1464 words, 5 pages)

Jailed and Stuck The authors Kate Chopin of Desirees Baby and Susan Glaspell of Trifles present a caste system of the 19th century. Theyboth focus upon the theme of the inferiority of women with respect to marriage, gender, and prospective positions in a castesystem of society. Actually, these two authors ... Read More

The Complex Human Drama Portrayed in Susan Gaspell’s “Trifles” (817 words, 3 pages)

Susan Glaspellss Trifles is a little gem of a play. In one short act, the playwright presents the audience with a complex human drama leaving us with a haunting question. Did an abused Nebraska farm wife murder her husband? Through the clever use of clues and the incriminating dialogue of ... Read More

The Depiction of Women Emotions in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles (759 words, 3 pages)

Trifles, written in the early 1900s by Susan Glaspell, is a one-act play illustrating how women can overreact to their own emotions, allowing these emotions to cloud their judgment. This is shown by describing the feelings of two women who are willing to defend a suspect, blame the victim, and ... Read More

An Analysis of “Trifles Make Perfections, and Perfection is No Trifle” By Michelangelo (884 words, 3 pages)

Trifles make perfections, and perfection is no trifle, Michelangelo once stated. He is one of the greatest artists of all time and is unmatched by any other. Michelangelo is the creator of works of sublime beauty that express the full breadth of human condition. Yet, he was caught between conflicting ... Read More

Expectations on Women in Susan Glaspell’s Play Trifles (1297 words, 2 pages)

TriflesMention the word feminist and most people think of the modern women's movement. Long before the bra burning of the 60s, however, writers were writing about the lives and concerns of women living in a male dominated society. Susan Glaspell's play, Trifles, was written in 1916, long before the modern ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Play Trifles by Susan Glaspell (779 words, 2 pages)

Steven FiorilloThe thesis of this paper is to prove that the title of Susan Glaspell's play "Trifles" represents how men considered women's duties and their opinions to be of little importance compared to a man's role in society. The dictionary defines the word trifle as something of little importance or ... Read More

The Motive of Two Murders in Trifles by Susan Glaspell (566 words, 1 pages)

The Motive of Two MurdersVictor Guadalupe CabanM,W,F 830 am0232000In the play "Trifles" the main character Mrs. Wright was accused of killing her husband while he was sleeping. As the play goes along we learned that she was motivated by certain situations that happened when she lived with her husband. In ... Read More

An Analysis of Men and Women Attitudes in Trifles by Susan Glaspell (818 words, 2 pages)

Short Answer 1-In Susan Glaspells Trifles, the dialog between characters creates the deep meaning of the story. The attitudes of the men is much different than that of the women, thus adding to one of the major themes. The speech of the women when they are alone conveys a completely ... Read More

An Analysis of the Roles of Men and Women in Society in the Play Trifles by Susan Glaspell (780 words, 2 pages)

An Analysis of the Intrigue and Murder in the Trifles, a Play by Susan Glaspell (578 words, 3 pages)

In Susan Glaspell's play Trifles (1163), she tells a story of mysteryand intrigue, surrounding an apparent murder. The setting is in the earlytwentieth century and it appears to be cold, maybe late fall or the deadof winter. Either way the mood is chilling cold like the death that hasset the ... Read More

Character Analysis of John and Minnie Wright in Trifles by Susan Glaspell (1300 words, 2 pages)

Trifles by Tammy Wallick Mention the word feminist and most people think of the modern women's movement. Long before the bra burning of the 60s, however, writers were writing about the lives and concerns of women living in a male dominated society. Susan Glaspell's play, Trifles, was written in 1916, ... Read More

A Review of Susan Glaspell’s Play “Trifles” (1025 words, 2 pages)

Triffes of fate On the surface, Susan Glaspell's play Trifles focuses on a wife murdering her oppressive husband. The husband is abusing his wife emotionally out on a lonely secluded farm isolated from society in the Midwest. Under the surface, the behaviors of Mrs. Hale, Mrs. Peters, and Mrs. Wright ... Read More

An Analysis of Trifles, a Play by Susan Glaspell (1300 words, 2 pages)

Triflesby Tammy WallickMention the word feminist and most people think of the modern women's movement. Long before the bra burning of the 60s, however, writers were writing about the lives and concerns of women living in a male dominated society. Susan Glaspell's play, Trifles, was written in 1916, long before ... Read More

An Analysis of the Motive of Two Murders in Trifles, a Play by Susan Glaspell (566 words, 1 pages)

The Motive of Two MurdersVictor Guadalupe CabanM,W,F 830 am0232000 In the play "Trifles" the main character Mrs. Wright was accused of killing her husband while he was sleeping. As the play goes along we learned that she was motivated by certain situations that happened when she lived with her husband. ... Read More

Men’s Attitudes towards Women in the Plays Trifles and A Doll’s House (1132 words, 2 pages)

Men's Assumptions There are similarities in the relationships between men and women in Susan Glaspell's Trifles and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll House. The assumptions that men have about women lead to conflicts in both plays. Conflicts in these two plays are a result of a male-dominated society. The men believe ... Read More

The Rebellion of Women Against a Male-Dominated Society in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles (652 words, 1 pages)

Are we Living in a Chauvinist Male Society? Gender roles are attitudes that a society links to each sex. They are basically prejudicial descriptions of who men and women are. In todays society, men and women are divided into two stereotypical gender-roles the feminine code and the masculine code. Men ... Read More

The Story of Mrs. Wright in Susan Glaspell’s Play “Trifles” (703 words, 1 pages)

The play Trifles was written by Susan Glaspell and is about a woman, Mrs. Wright who is accused of killing her husband, Mr. Wright. The setting of the story takes place in a somewhat "abandoned" farmhouse in a gloomy kitchen in the country. Immediately, the reader gets the impression that ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of a Doll House by Henrik Ibsen and Trifles by Glaspell (589 words, 2 pages)

In Isben's A Doll House as in Glaspell's Trifles, the women in the play are seen assubordinates to their male counterparts. The men believe that the women are not capableof making difficult decisions, or thinking for themselves. They also fail to giveimportance to the women's jobs as homemakers. In the ... Read More

An Analysis of Susan Glaspell’s Trifles” and Henrik Ibsen’s “Doll House” (698 words, 3 pages)

Women of today have come a long way since the periods portrayed in the dramas "Trifles," written by Susan Glaspell, and "Doll House," written by Henrik Ibsen. In both dramas, the characters played by women were portrayed as nothing more than property which should be seen and not heard. This ... Read More

An Analysis of Trifles, a Drama by Susan Glaspell (769 words, 1 pages)

ESSAY 2Throughout time women have broken off the shorter end of the stick against men. Even when women have been correct and justified in their opinions, they have often been ignored and had their opinions and thoughts vanquished. Sometimes men will amuse women by taking their thoughts into consideration, but ... Read More

The Little Pieces of Evidence When Investigating a Crime in Trifles (919 words, 2 pages)

Little Trifles Add Up to a Big CaseDetectives are always looking for little pieces of evidence when investigating a crime. After all, it is this evidence that can turn a trial around, whether be it for the good or bad. This is especially the case in Susan Glaspell's Trifles. When ... Read More

An Analysis of Trifles, a Play by Susan Glaspell (580 words, 1 pages)

Trifles was a play based on a real life tragedy. A tragedy in which a man was found strangled in his bed while the wife unknowingly sleeps. The author, Susan Glaspell, was on staff at the Des Moines Daily News when the murdered occurred. The play is said to draw ... Read More

A Critique of Susan Glaspell’s Trifles (559 words, 1 pages)

Woman s JusticeSusan Glaspell s Trifles misleads its readers into the impression that its focus it the investigation the murder of Mr. Wright. Glaspel goes much deeper then the Murder-she-wrote version of a mid-western game of clue instead, readers are drawn into a good old day s version of Men ... Read More

An Analysis of Trifles by Susan Glaspell (990 words, 2 pages)

Susan Glaspell was born in 1882 in Davenport, Iowa. She graduated from Drake University and worked as a journalist on the staff of the Des Moines Daily News. When her stories began appearing in magazines such as Harper's and The Ladies' Home Journal, she gave up the newspaper business. In ... Read More

An Analysis of the Topic of the Trifles by Susan Glaspell (496 words, 1 pages)

Trifles, written by Susan Glaspell, is a real life murder case that uses symbolism to help solve a mystery. Glaspell's use of dialect, set on a midwestern farm, emphasizes the town's gender-separated society. Isolationism, a quilt, and incomplete housework are the three key symbols in the play the help the ... Read More

A Review of Susan Glaspell’s Play “Trifles” (1025 words, 2 pages)

Triffes of fateOn the surface, Susan Glaspell's play Trifles focuses on a wife murdering her oppressive husband. The husband is abusing his wife emotionally out on a lonely secluded farm isolated from society in the Midwest. Under the surface, the behaviors of Mrs. Hale, Mrs. Peters, and Mrs. Wright in ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013