Trifles By Susan Glaspell Research Paper

Throughout the play Trifles, by Susan Glaspell, multiple themes have come about. One theme that stood out tremendously was man v. man. This came about when Mr. Wright stopped showing his wife, Mrs. Wright, attention. The two already had their differences such as how Mrs. Wright enjoys singing, while "Mr. Wright would prefer it to be quiet (Mrs. Hale, pg. 573)." When this occurred, Mrs. Wright needed something to keep her going, something to keep her happy, so she got a bird. She could sing with the bird and much more. Considering how quiet Mr. Wright likes it to be, him and the bird did not go hand in hand, so something had to be done about the bird." Mr. Wright choked the life out of the bird (Mrs. Hale, pg. 573)." Another example

One way they tied treatment of women into this play, is the way they talked to the women and the way they acted towards the women. Talking over them, and treating them as if they really did not know anything having to do with the event that took place. They basically treated the women as if they were less, as if the women were under men, as if the women’s opinion was no opinion. The men belittled the women, they displayed personalities of purpose and analytical skills while investigating, the men were basically ignoring what the women said and being a “know-it-all.” Also the author tied revenge into the play. Revenge was tied into the play when noticing that Mrs. Wright murdered Mr. Wright because Mr. Wright murdered her bird. At the time the bird was keeping her company and keeping her happiness, and Mr. Wright took that from her, so she did what she had to do. This was kind of foreshadowed as well, because the death of bird was basically the death of Mr. Wright. Both the bird and Mr. Wright were strangled. The author really did a delicate job tying themes thought this play, it really is