Trifles By Susan Glaspell Research Paper

Tifles Trifles by Susan Glaspell is a play loosely based upon the murder of John Hossack. As Henry Peters, the sheriff, and the county attorney, George Henderson arrive with Lewis Hale, Mrs. Peters, and Mrs. Hale, who are all witnesses, at John Wright’s farmhouse in the investigation of Mr. Wright’s murder. Lewis Hale begins by tracing his steps in his discovery of Mr. Wright and how odd Mrs. Wright was acting. However, the gentlemen could not figure out why Wright had been so gruesomely strangled when their was a gun in the house. As the men were upstair investigating the murder scene, the three ladies were rummaging through the kitchen when they found a broken bird cage. Then, while looking at Mrs. Wright’s quilt she was making, they decided to bring her some cloth and her sewing basket to get her mind off of things. However, when they were going through her sewing basket to get what she would need, they found a dead canary strangled the exact same way Mr. Wright had. The ladies decided to keep this information to themselves.

She was also an American Pulitzer Prize winner in play-writing, actress, director, novelist, biographer, and poetry. Being the co-founder, alongside with her husband, of Privincetown Players which was one of the most important collaboratives in the development of modern drama in the United States. As well as serving on the Works Progress Administration as Midwest Bureau of the Federal Theatre Project. Attending Drake University, Susan graduated in 1899 with a bachelors degree in philosophy. Being a considerable reporter after college, she later became a writer and wrote over fifty short stories, nine novels, fourteen plays, and one