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Trifles By Gloria Glaspell

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In “Trifles,” Gloria Glaspell brilliantly describes the setting in this story to mirror the life of Minnie Wright. An abandoned farmhouse on a cold winter day. The stove is the only heat source, and it fails to warm a home that has trapped Minnie in isolation and loneliness for years. Men in the early twentieth century viewed women as second class, women had no brain, no opinion, and no value outside the kitchen or bedroom. The men in “Triffles” see the kitchen as things, with no value to their murder investigation (1386). It is the kitchen in which Minnie Wright identifies her worth, her life, and ultimately, her breaking point. The disarray of the kitchen has the men belittling her housekeeping skills, while the woman ponder on why her home
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