Susan Glaspell's Trifles

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I believe that Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles contained many aspects of feministic literature. To begin, the men throughout this play belittle the women characters throughout the story, constantly throwing jabs at the females, considering them housekeepers. It was clear that the men segregated themselves from the women since they immediately began to check out the crime scene, and left the women downstairs. Hale belittled Mrs. Wright by saying, “I didn't know as what his wife wanted made much difference to John” (Glaspell, Susan.) showing that once again this was written in a time where woman weren’t as equal as men. Even though Mrs. Wright potentially murdered her husband, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters came off as very loyal to Mrs. Wright, although they haven’t spoken, or got together in a really long time. This following quote displays the loyalty they had towards Mrs. Wright, “MRS HALE: Those towels get dirty awful quick. Men's hands aren't always as clean as they might be. COUNTY ATTORNEY: Ah, loyal to your sex, I see. But you and Mrs Wright were neighbors. I suppose you were friends, too.” (Glaspell, Susan.) …show more content…

It was clear that they knew how hard life was being married, having to take care of the home, and the kids- and not allowed to do anything else was. Mrs. Hale even explains that, “We all go through the same things—it's all just a different kind of the same thing,” (Glaspell, Susan. ) These two women were beyond attentive with the crime scene, and they weren’t even around where Mr. Wrights body was. Due to the fact that they were women, they realized that her quilt knitting was off in one section, the men thought that them wondering over a stitching pattern was stupidity, shown in these following

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