Susan Glaspell's play "Trifles- highlights the unequal status of men and women that existed in the early 20th century. ... No telling; you women might come upon a clue to the motive "and that's the thing we need- (Glaspell 5). ... - (Glaspell 5). ... She straightened "stepped back, and half turned away, stood looking at it, seeing the woman who had sat there pleatin' at her apron'- (Glaspell 6). ... They support the claim of the thesis that Glaspell used dialogue to show misunderstanding between the men and women. ...

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One main similarity between the two plays A Doll's House, by Henrik Ibsen, and Trifles, by Susan Glaspell, is that the women are treated like they are incompetent. In many cases, the men in both plays treat the women like prizes or pets. In A Doll's House, Torvald calls Nora his singing bird, or...

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Susan Glaspell was born in Davenport, Iowa in 1876. After graduating high school, she started writing professionally, for a local newspaper. In 1901, she began her career as a fiction writer. Her fiction works were romantic stories set in the Midwest, and she was published in several popular mag...

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In Susan Glaspell's short story "A Jury of Her Peers", the female characters Martha Hale and Mrs. ... She wished she had visited when Minnie was there but "there was always something to do and Minnie Foster would go right from her mind" (Glaspell 2). ... Glaspell mentions twice that the women moved closer together as the county attorney discovered the broken preserves, dirty towel and dirty dishes. ...

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The Author Susan Glaspell shows an obvious stereotypical attitude by men towards women in her story, A Jury of Her Peers. ... (Glaspell Pg. 74) Mrs. ... (Glaspell Pg. 72) She most likely got upset due to something that her husband had done, and she got riled up and was rough with the bird cage. ... (Glaspell Pg. 73) After raging on the cage for while she probably fanaticized about killing Mr. ...

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At the beginning of the twentieth century people's lifestyles were far different from the lives we live today. The early 1900's was a time of hardship and struggles. This is especially true for the people of rural America. Both men and women must work long hours everyday just to put food on the ...

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Trifles, written by Susan Glaspell, is the unique perspectives of the two different genders on the same issue. As suggested by its title, the central theme of Trifles is that things dismissed by some as trivial and insignificant ("trifles") often are very important. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, rest...

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Author Susan Glaspell was ahead of her time as she blurred the lines of traditional definitions, particularly of marriage and women's roles in society, in the early twentieth century. Based on her play Trifles, Glaspell's short story A Jury of Her Peers illustrates how men and women viewing the same set of circumstances will look at objects differently. ...

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Trifle: something of little value, substance, or importance. In the short play "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell this is what the men accuse the women of "constantly worrying over". This play is set in the early 1900's and is about the murder of a man and trying to find clues as to why he was mur...

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Women in Society: Then and Now Women in any society, no matter what the time period, have never been viewed as complete equals. Women did not get to make many of their own choices and a majority of the time; there life was mainly mapped out for them prior to adulthood. However, some readings and ...

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TRIFLES In an investigation men and women handle things very differently and have different views of what really happened. Men underestimate women all the time in today's society. Men believe that women cannot do a "man's job." Men believe that a women cannot do any job better then them. In thi...

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