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A trifle is an object that is of little to no value. In Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles, the reader is shown the true value of these trifles. Throughout the play, it is shown how Mrs. Wright was isolated from others because of her husband. There are many different themes that one can look at through this play. In Trifles, by Susan Glaspell, gender roles are one of the top themes throughout the play.
Susan Glaspell was known for her contributions to two feminist organizations: Heterodoxy and the Lucy Stone League in 1914. The Heterodoxy organization was known for being an unorthodox group. Susan Glaspell helped contribute to this group because she wrote The Verge. The Verge, is one of Gaspell’s first full-length plays. The other feminist organization Glaspell was a member of is the Lucy Stone League. This group had a motto, “A wife should no more take her husband’s name than he should hers” (DBpedia). Through Glaspell’s plays and stories, she expresses gender roles, and how they impacted society.
Gaspell wrote this play at the height of the Women’s Suffrage Movement (Euylul). It is also noted that Gaspell was inspired to write this play after being a journalist during a murder
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Hale and Mrs. Peters, in a position where they discover what actually happened to Mr. Wright before the men of the story do. They discover this through the so-called “trifles” that women worry about. As the story moves forward, you can see the pieces of evidence begin to line up. First, the ladies walk around her kitchen and talk about how Mrs. Wright was Minnie Foster. This was before she was married to Mr. Wright. The ladies describe Minnie Foster with the following, “She used to wear pretty clothes and be lively, when she was Minnie Foster, one of the town girls singing in the choir” (1202). After Minnie married Mr. Wright, her bright personality faded and she did not participate in the Ladies Aid and did not talk to many