Analysis of Trifles by Susan Glaspell Essay -- Susan Glaspell

Trifles is a play with a unified fleck. Although there be verbal flashbacks to the events of the day of the tally of trick Wright, the plays entire plot begins and ends in a span of one day. The author also extends the unified plot to create a single setting (the farmhouse kitchen). The plot centers on John Wrights murder. Mrs. Wright is the main suspect an investigation is taking place as to the motif or reason for the crime.The Sheriff, Mr. Hale and the County Attorney are introduced first to the audience. They are investigating the crime scene. The wo custody, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, accompany the workforce to gather some(prenominal) of Mrs. Wrights belongings that she needs in jail. This exposition turns ironic when the women end up investigating and factually get under ones skin up with evidence, while the professional men get out without an answer to their quest to find a motive for the murder of Mrs. Wrights husband.Mr. Hale gives an account of what he c ame upon the day of the murder. He found Mrs. Wright in a state of shock and nervousness. Mr. Hale states that Mr. Wright didnt care much for talk to people all he wanted was peace and quiet. This adumbrative bequeath be used by the women, mainly Mrs. Hale, to connect the motive to the drained bird that they find later on in the play. Additional foreshadowing facts are the broken jelly jar and the really cold kitchen atmosphere. Again, the women have that this coldness was what drove Mrs. Wright to murder. Mrs. Hale informs the County Attorney that Mr. Wright was not a very cheerful man, which may be why the farmhouse does not look or feel cheery. The audience learns that Mr. Wright was a cold, uncommunicative, selfish man.The theme of men versus women come into view... ...ver, Mrs. Peters undergoes character development from believing that it should be up to the law to determine what should happen to Mrs. Wright to being convinced that women ought to stand together a gainst the stereotypical views of women that the men have. This change occurs when Mrs. Peters recalls a childhood event that involved her cat and a mean, dreadful little boy.The plays rising action occurs at the point when the men could not connect the why and the how of John Wrights murder. The women, as they meddle with their trifles, uncovers the familiarity and objects that the masculine detectives were seeking. In the end, the men come up empty and the women leave the farmhouse with concealed evidence in hand - the dead bird. The audience is remaining thinking that Mrs. Wright will be a free woman. As to what the actual verdict will be, no one knows.