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Trifles By Susan Glaspell

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The short film Trifles by Susan Glaspell, former journalist, is a film that was written in 1916 that brings to light the issue of oppression faced by women during that time period. In the film, a man named Mr. Wright is murdered. The Wright’s neighbor, Mr. Hale, finds Mr. Wright hanging from a rope and recounts to the attorney, Mr. Henderson, that Mrs. Wright was acting particularly strange that day. Upon questioning by Mr. Henderson, Mr. Hale claims that Mrs. Wright told him that someone had strangled her husband while she was asleep. The men begin to search the house for clues tied to the murder, while the women, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, stay downstairs to search for evidence. The mystery is eventually solved and the underlying theme
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