Susan Glaspell was born in 1882 and raised in Davenport, Iowa. Glaspell began her career as a novelist and author of sentimental short stories for popular magazines. ... Dramatist Susan Glaspell wrote at a time when the boundaries between the private and public spheres were beginning to break down. ... Many writers, like Susan Keating Glaspell, deconstruct gender roles by giving female characters knowledge that empowers them within the women's sphere. ... Lawrence and Susan Glaspell both are extraordinary writers whom use secrecy in very similar ways, but develop plot in two different w...

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"Trifles," by Susan Glaspell, is about a murder investigation of a man who supposedly was murdered by his wife. ... She worried about that when it turned so cold"" (Glaspell, 1128) and in response the Sheriff wants to beat the women for worrying about something so foolish. ... "She used to wear pretty clothes and be lively, when she was one of the town girls singing in the choir"" (Glaspell, 1129). ... But in the play Glaspell preserves that what these two women are doing is insulting to their knowledge and they seem so insignificant compared to the men, almost invisible compared to the men...

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In Susan Glaspell's Trifles, published during 1916, she uses Mrs. ... Therefore, Glaspell uses Mrs. Wright to show the inequality women face in that society Susan Glaspell is an American writer who was born in 1876 and she graduated from University of Chicago. ... Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour", is very similar to Glaspell's story. ... In conclusion, Glaspell represents Mrs. ...

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In 1916, Susan Glaspell wrote the one-act play Trifles. was originally written by Susan Glaspell as a play entitled Trifles. ... Glaspell was inspired to write the story while covering a murder investigation when she worked as a journalist for the Des Moines Daily News (qtd. in Annenberg). ...

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The play on Trifles is about a woman who may have killed her husband, either premeditated or for the reason that she has just had enough of his abuse. I will be arguing for Minnie's defense as to why she was just, and the women who aided her were also reasonable in aiding her in getting away with mu...

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