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Trifles By Susan Glaspell Analysis

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In the poem “Trifles” written by Susan Glaspell 1876-1948 is a story about a murder investigation. John Wright was murder in his home while him and his wife was in the bed sleep. John`s wife is being held at the jail while the sheriff, county attorney, and a neighborhood framer looks around the house for evidence and a motive. The men warm themselves up by the stove, but the women hover frightfully by the door, and Mrs. Peters rejects Henderson's offer to join them at the stove. The sheriff steps away from the stove and takes off his coat as he asks Hale to describe what he saw yesterday morning. Hale goes into details mentioning things he saw upstairs and the county attorney stopped him asking him to wait until they were upstairs so he

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