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Trifles By Susan Glaspell

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The short drama named Trifles written by Susan Glaspell in 1916 opens with five characters entering the kitchen of Wright farmhouse. The owner of the farm house John Wright has been strangled to death with a rope in his farmhouse. The main suspect for this crime is Mrs. John, the neighbor Mr. Hale and sheriff’s wife is investigating this case. Sheriff asks to Mrs. John, “weren’t you sleeping’ in the bed with him?”(Glaspell 853) to find out about Mr. John’s death and his wife accepts the fact that she was sleeping next to him, but she had no clue how her husband died or who killed her husband. The man assume that woman cannot help them with this therefore they ignores them. However, while further investigation the females were the actual one’s
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