People share and express some form of empathy towards one another everyday. Empathy is the ability to understand and share mutual feelings with another person. For example, we see this when someone cries because their beloved dog got hit by a car, and the other person empathizes because they too had previously lost a pet. Susan Glaspell’s play, a small town murder committed by a lonely farmer's wife and the other two main female characters end up hiding the evidence with an alternative motive. In the beginning of this play, the men separate themselves away from the women, treating them as if they are not capable of helping. Notably, during this time it was a patriarchal society and for this reason it might indicate the two female characters motivation for covering …show more content…
Alexander)”. Today, things like inequality and patriarchal societies is seen way less frequently. Women would not have to commit murder or hide evidence to make a point, things today are handled much differently.
The three female characters in this play are obviously at this time all seemed to be struggling with a Patriarchal society. Things like feminist theory, inequality and empathy can be found within the text of this play when taking a deeper view. This murder is looked at as an act of rebellion on the male dominated society. Today, women have less issues with inequality then women of that time period, thus allowing us to understand why these women would act this way. As a final point, these women empathized with Minnie Foster based off of the way they all were being treated and proceeded to cover up the