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Susan Glaspells's Trifles is a little gem of a play. In one short act, the playwright presents the

audience with a complex human drama leaving us with a haunting question. Did an abused Nebraska

farm wife murder her husband? Through the clever use of clues and the incriminating dialogue of the

two main characters, this murder mystery unfolds into a psychological masterpiece of enormous

proportions. Written in 1916, the play deals with the theme of the roles of women in society. This was a

time before women had the right to vote or sit on juries. Shortly after writing the play, Glaspell wrote it

as a short story entitled A Jury of Her Peers.

The scene is set in the cold, gloomy kitchen of a Nebraska farmhouse. The room is quite messy

with signs of uncompleted work everywhere; unwashed pots, a dirty hand towel, and bread left open on

the table. The first characters to enter the stage are two middle-aged men, the county sheriff, Henry

Peters, and Lewis Hale, a local farmer. They are followed by a younger man, George Henderson, the

county attorney. Then, the main characters arrive on stage, the sheriff's wife and the farmer's wife, Mrs.

Mrs. Wright, she was sitting in her rocking chair "looking queer, as if she didn't know what she was

o investigate the murder of the owner of the house, John Wright. The

visit Minnie Wright but she excused herself saying that their was so much work to do on the farm and

The "trifles" uncovered by the two women are intriguing to say the least. They tell the audience a

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Category: English

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