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Susan Glaspell's "Trifles": Suspect or Victim?, 2001.
This essay analyzes feminist Susan Glaspell's "Trifles", a murder and investigation story.
752 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This critical paper explores Susan Glaspell's first drama, "Trifles", a murder and investigation story. Within the plot lies the undertone of sexual discrimination and the effects it had upon women. Although murder is not a justifiable action, no matter what the offense may be, "Trifles" generates sympathy towards the murderer for what she has been through and makes the reader feel less like she was the suspect and more like she was the victim.
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"Susan Glaspell's first drama, Trifles, was written on one afternoon in 1916 as Glaspell sat in an empty theater staring at an empty stage. Based on her memories of a murder trial she covered in earlier days as a reporter, Trifles is a story of murder, evidence, and justice. However, underneath the outer facts, emotions, oppressions, and motives are exposed. Two of the major themes developed in the plot of Trifles are the physical and psychological oppressions suffered by the women of the early 1900s and the significance of a male-dominated civilization. Trifles gives the reader a perfect example of how the suspect of a story can evolve into a victim as the plot develops and the inner emotions are revealed."
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Play: Susan Glaspell's "Trifles", 2008.
Examines the background, the plot and the critical views of Susan Glaspell's play "Trifles".
1,325 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper relates that Susan Glaspell, a reporter, based her one-act play "Trifles" on events that actually happened in Iowa near the turn of the 20th century, which she covered. The author points out that the plot of the play is as if Glaspell didn't like the outcome of the real-life situation and then got to craft her own ending. The paper relates that the themes in "Trifles"are gender relationships, the tug-of-war battles between the sexes, women's perceptive intuition vs. men's bullishness, male chauvinism and the good-old-boy network of criminal justice
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"After leaving newspaper work, her writing was strictly fictional; until that is her husband, George Cram Cook (a classics scholar with whom she had been involved during his second marriage in a long affair) urged her to write a play. "Glaspell may have been trying to buoy up Cook's artistic reputation by making him out to be the party responsible" for her literary success, something he, Cook, had never achieved. Meanwhile, even though Glaspell herself carried on an affair with a married man, thus hurting another woman, she painted men in "Trifles" as the bad guys."
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A Feminist Look at Susan Glaspell's Play "Trifles", 2000.
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This paper looks how Susan Glaspell's play "Trifles" uses many ideas found in feminist criticism and explores the three main tools Susan Glaspell uses in driving her point home: the experience of the woman, the traditional roles of men and women, and the use of binary oppositions.
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"One idea of feminist criticism is that literature is based on womens? experience, and ?it is specifically the connective, the accumulative details of experience, that provide the structural key for the comprehension of this story (Alkalay-Gut 1).? Upon entering her home, Mrs. Hale notices that Mrs. Wright left certain things undone, such as dirty dishes in the sink, the half-wiped table, and the half-poured sugar. Being a farmer?s wife herself she understands this, and defends Mrs. Wright when the men criticize her untidiness by replying, ?There?s a great deal of work to be done on a farm (Glaspell, 401).? She understands what it?s like to have a million things to do and not enough time to do them. Women often make the job look so easy that men like these believe there isn?t much to it. She also knows that these men do not appreciate the effort put forth to manage a household, but more importantly she speaks her mind, asserting her views firmly."
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Susan Glaspell's "Trifles", 2002.
A discussion of the 1916 one-act play in terms of gender relationships.
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Discusses the 1916 one-act play in terms of gender relationships. Characters, plot, setting, dramatic conflict. Different meaning of common household "trifles" to the male and female characters as a key to the play's resolution. Different ways of seeing and interpreting of male and female characters. Theme of traditional rules of society vs. justice.
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" Susan Glaspell' s classic 1916 one-act play "Trifles" is a character driven drama that pits the wits and empathy of female characters against the blinding arrogance of the malecharacters. Set in a bleak, Midwestern farming community, the plot centers around a murder investigation. Minnie Wright has been arrested by the sheriff for the murder of her husband John after saying that she just woke up in bed beside the body of her rope-strangled husband. What the sheriff needs is proof of Mrs. Wright's guilt in the form of motivation and evidence. The
dramatic conflict of the play is the search for evidence and how that evidence is interpreted. The setting of the play is the gloomy kitchen of the Wright's farmhouse."
The play's five onstage characters include the County
Attorney George Henderson, Sheriff Henry Peters, his wife Mrs.
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Susan Glaspell's Mystery Character: Minnie Wright, 2007.
This paper analyzes the character of Minnie Wright, who is continuously scrutinized but never appears, in Susan Glaspell's one act play "Trifles" and the related story "A Jury of Her Peers".
2,105 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper explains that Susan Glaspell, in her play "Trifles" and novel "A Jury of Her Peers", presents the character of Minnie Wright through the many "trifles", or small clues, recognized by the two women---Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters---who accompany the official murder investigation team. The author points out that this device of the "unseen woman", also used by Edgar Allen Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle, draws attention to the marginalization of women who are unseen by men in a patriarchal society. The paper stresses that because they dismissed the importance of "trifles", the investigators could not solve the mystery of who Minnie Wright was and why she would murder her husband.
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"Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale allow us to see Minnie without actually seeing her. Both women share a significant number of life experiences and similar life responsibilities with Minnie. As such, they can see many small things that are nevertheless significant. These insignificant "trifles" include the half-sifted flour (or laid out bread), the preserves, the poorly sewn quilting patch, and the dead canary. One of the trifles noticed by the women but overlooked by the men was that of the flour / bread. Mustazza points out that this scene contains one of the subtle differences in scene between "Trifles" and "A Jury of Her Peers"."
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Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers", 2008.
Looks at the theme of women's social-cultural position in Susan Glaspell's short story "A Jury of Her Peers".
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This paper relates that Susan Glaspell, in "A Jury of Her Peers", demonstrates the injustice of male superiority during the early 20th century, when the story was written. The paper describes the way the men misjudge the intelligence and instincts of the women in the story, thus portraying the men as overpowering, ignorant and foolish. The paper further explains that the plot shows indirectly the men's disrespect to the women by making a mockery of all the kitchen items and anything relating to victim Minnie's domestic duties. The author concludes that the unity of the three women strengthens Glaspell's point of making the superiority of men unjust.
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"Glaspell describes Minnie's life as extremely lonesome which allows the reader to sympathize with Minnie; once again making men like John Wright look harsh and inappropriate. For example, her house is described with words of abandonment and depression: "Maybe because it's a down in a hollow and you don't see the road. I don't know, but it's a lonesome place and always way." In addition to living in such a miserable environment, Minnie did not have any kids. Once again, the reader and both the women sympathize with Minnie."
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?A Jury of Her Peers? by Susan Glaspell, 2006.
This paper reviews the book "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell, while exploring the sisterhood formed by sharing simple homemaking tasks and a certain death.
788 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 28.95
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The writer of this paper explains that in Susan Glaspell's short story all women go through the same thing, just a little differently. This paper explains the significance of the story taking place in the kitchen, for it reflects the women's pride and hard work. The writer gives a clear description of the mood expressed in the book as well as exploring the relationship between men and women in a patriarchal society.
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"The bird and the bird cage are significant to the life that Minnie had been living, caged like an animal, isolated from the world. The isolation could make anyone a little crazy. The women noticed the broken door on the cage and Mrs. Hale remarked, "Looks as if someone must have been rough with it," suggesting Minnie's life of abuse. The bird is a crucial detail in this story for it symbolizes everything what Minnie was when she was younger, beautiful full of life and singing in the choir. The bird being found in a pretty box wrapped up in silk let the readers know along with Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters that this bird was something precious to Minnie. Seeing the bird's neck wrung symbolized how Mr. Wright was killed with a rope around his neck having the life chocked out of him like he did to Minnie.
The quilt is brought to our attention to explain to the readers that quilting is a hobby that is done in groups as a social event. The women guessed that because Minnie was isolated and had no social contact, she would knot the quilt."
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Themes in Susan Glaspell's Work, 2007.
An analysis of the themes found in "A Jury of Her Peers," "The Last Sixty Minutes" and "The Plea" by Susan Glaspell.
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This paper discusses three short stories of Susan Glaspell - "A Jury of Her Peers," "The Last Sixty Minutes" and "The Plea." It analyzes the theme found in these stories which revolves around morality and moral decisions. The paper describes how each character in the stories makes an extremely personal decision somewhere in the tale - a decision that will alter their lives.
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"In conclusion, all of these stories seem deceptively simple at first reading. The plots are simple - it is the complex characters who give the stories meaning and a strong sense of morality and right from wrong. Each of these stories poses a moral dilemma and then solves it satisfactorily for the reader. Glaspell's work is more complicated than it might appear. Her situations are complex, and so are her character's reactions to them. Plotting might not be her strong point, but characterization and theme certainly are, and these stories all illustrate that quite well."
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Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers", 2000.
An examination of the feminine sense of self and the female myth in Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers".
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This paper examines the myths about women by men in a patriarchal society as portrayed in Glaspell's short story, "A Jury of Her Peers".
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"Glaspell demonstrates how the cultural norms and myths about women in "A Jury of Her Peers" affect the women characters? sense of self by creating an incident where the women are forced to reckon with the myths that have been created about them in their patriarchal society, and to come to terms with the reality of their feminine self-definition. Through the unfolding of events in the story, we readers see the women characters? sense of self evolve. Their realization is important not only to the outcome of the story, but also, to the women readers who may see themselves in the roles of those characters. "A Jury of Her Peers? supports this thesis. "
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"A Jury of her Peers" by Susan Glaspell, 2002.
A look at American society through its law.
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This paper suggests that the story "A Jury of her Peers" is one that shows the generalization present in the society of the early twentieth century and provides two perspectives of law.
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Glaspell?s ?Jury? Trifles, 2000.
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This paper addresses the themes of Susan Glaspell?s short story adaptation ?A Jury of her Peers? from her play "Trifles". It deals with the cultural and sociological motivations of a group of women to cover up the murder of one of their husbands- and that sets an example of feminist writing in the early 20th century.
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"Susan Glaspell seriously challenges the common conception of weak and stupid females through the characters of her literary and dramatic works, Trifles and ? A Jury of Her Peers?. She attacks the conventions of marriage, the ignorance of spousal abuse, and the general mistreatment of women within her society-which unfortunately, still continues today. The play Trifles and its literary adaptation ?A Jury of Her Peers? by Glaspell is an expression of the dissatisfaction of females? roles and treatment in the society of the early twentieth-century in the United States. The suffocating oppression of Minnie Foster leads to the asphyxiation death of her unfeeling husband and their loveless marriage."
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'Trifles' and 'Jury of Her Peers', 2004.
This paper analyzes Susan Glaspell's play "Trifles" and the short story "A Jury of Her Peers".
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In this article, the writer looks at Susan Glaspell's play "Trifles" based upon the short story "A Jury of Her Peers". The writer discusses these works in terms of the ideas of crime and punishment. The writer also examines the cultural context of each work.
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"This research examines ways in which social experience informs conscience and behavior in Susan Glaspell's play "Trifles" and the short story on which it was based "A Jury of Her Peers". The research will set forth the cultural context of the narrative and show how inter-penetrations of conscience and social constructs in that context affect explain or justify behavior. The social milieu of Glaspell's story is a decisive component of the narrative. In the drab farmhouse where the action of 'Trifles' and 'Jury' unfolds all the people are ... "
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"Trifles" and "The Glass Menagerie", 2007.
This paper compares and contrasts Susan Glaspell's "Trifles" and Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie".
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The paper discusses how Susan Glaspell's "Trifles" and Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" are, in spite of the different styles they use, very similar in their subjects and especially in the way they the construct the main relationships between men and women. The paper portrays how both plays represent femininity through symbols of extreme sensibility and fragility. The paper shows how the female protagonists in the stories, "Laura" and "Mrs. Wright" are also alike in many ways.
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"Glaspell's play is thus an overt criticism of the disregard that men have for the female, seemingly unimportant world. The main relationship in the story, that between the two absent characters, Mrs. Wright and her husband, is very significant: Mr. Wright gets strangled with a rope in his sleep and the main suspect is of course, his wife. The investigations and inquiries made by the sheriff and the attorney are symbols of the typical, pragmatic and masculine world of action. In the meanwhile the wives, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters notices the "trifles" connected with the main female occupations: the preserves, the needle work and so on. While the men are incapable of finding the most important detail of the crime, the motive, the two women discover it through their sensibility as women, and through the understanding that comes from common experience."
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"Trifles", 2008.
An analysis of the female gender role stereotypes of Victorian society within Susan Glaspell's "Trifles".
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This paper analyzes the feminist issues that arise within American patriarchal Victorian society within the play "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell. It looks at how the play revolves around the murder investigation of Mr. Wright's wife in relation to her husband's murder and how the various stereotypical female gender roles in the play deny an accurate and unbiased account of the murder through the men and woman that collect evidence for trial. In essence, the paper shows how the gender role of the housewife and the alienated female in Victorian society are the central aspects of stereotypes brought forth by Glaspell in her feminist drama: "Trifles".
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"The general plot of Trifles is centered around the mysterious murder of Mr. Wright, a local farmer. His wife, Mrs. Wright, never appears in the play, but is constantly referred to in relation to her possible involvement in the crime. The investigation and ensuing court case revolves around the gender stereotypes that the male officials provide when discovering Mrs. Wright's strange behavior after the death of her husband. In the case of Lewis Hale--who had discovered Mr. Wright's body--his own descriptions of Mrs. Wright infer a strong Victorian sense of the "nurturing" housewife when he had initially questioned her."
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"Trifles", 2002.
An analysis of the women characters in Susan Glaspell's play, "Trifles".
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The paper discusses the play "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell, the characteristics of the women and the attitudes to their men and how their own roles in life are gradually illuminated. The author shows how the intensity of the situation, in effect two women judging the life of the third, absent party, provides a context in which Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peter grow significantly, in character, strength and importance.
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"The relationships that are initially introduced are between the women and their men. Specifically, Mrs. Hale, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Wright are wives first and foremost, and Mrs. Wright, or Minnie, seems more powerless in her absence; she is introduces through a critical, male character, Hale. The women appear used to the men working without their involvement, as the opening dialogue takes place without their interruption and they do not speak again until they are addressed, albeit to defend Mrs. Wright. However, the first thing Mrs. Hale says when the men leave, is bold and distances her from the men:
" I'd hate to have men coming into my kitchen, snooping around and criticising" "
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