Susan Glaspell's Gender Roles

In both Triffles and The story of an Hour, we will realize how the changes in the main characters, contributed to the theme of both stories.The Triffles by Susan Glaspell gives an understanding to the role each character played in the in the drama. The drama occurred during the earliest part of the 20th century which was important because men were more controlling at that time. The drama was cast during winter time, in a farmhouse in the early 1900 's. Susan Glaspell set the tone from the beginning and gave an idea of the character 's behavior. An example was the men 's poor appreciation of women and the work they did. The main character of the play was Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters.. Throughout the story, we realized that women still didn 't have right for themselves and were viewed as small and non-important factors in everyday life. But by the end of the story, we

Throughout the play Triffles, The men were the ones who were searching the house looking for clues or evidence of motives for the murder of Mr.Wright allegedly killed by Mrs. Wright. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters were preset during the investigation but were not supposed to be a part of it. They just came along to be observer. This was because men were suppose to be the superior gender that handled everything in life. Even though the women were just suppose to be observers, they changed from the character of just observing and began to fiddle through some items and took notice of some small details in the house. In the story of an Hour, After Mrs. Mallard got the information of her husbands death, she went from a wife that felt neglected and abused to having a sense of freedom and happiness. Mrs. Mallard was optimistic about how her future was going to be filled with happiness in the absence of her husband.We will ask how was it right for a woman to feel that way after the death of her husband. We can only think about the unthinkable but it was obvious that their relationship wasn 't a