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Trifles By Susan Glaspell

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Glaspell’s one-act play is a feminist murder mystery about the murder of John Wright. John Wright is believed to have been murdered by his wife. Throughout the story, county attorney George Henderson and Sheriff Henry Peters are trying to find a possible motive of John Wright’s murder so Mrs. Wright can be tried in court. However, while the men are investigating upstairs, their wives are surveying around the Wright’s house downstairs and find what is believed to be Mrs. Wright’s motive to kill her husband of thirty years. “Trifles” has an obvious approach towards the inequality of women in the legal system when it comes to marriage, divorce, and arrest. With that said, “Trifles” provides some useful points as it is strongly focused on some
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