The second novel we read that showed literary merit was, Trifles by Susan Glaspell (1876-1948). ... The play Trifles by Susan Glaspell has many ways that it presents literary merit. ... Wright has been worried and while the investigation is underway it is said that, "Well, women are used to worrying over trifles" (Glaspell 1314). ... The message that is being told by Glaspell is that sometimes it's the "trifle" things in life that leave us the biggest clues about what really goes on and what happens. ... " (Glaspell 1312) Also it does not just conform to the expec...

• Word Count: 1594
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 2006
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1347
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• Grade Level: High School

Women are the only oppressed group in our society that live in intimate association with their oppressors which can lead caged, unfulfilled lives. Trifles is a play by Susan Glaspell written in 1916. John Wright, who owned a farm, had been murdered the night before by strangulation in his bed. His w...

• Word Count: 1277
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School