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Trifles(p. 1033)

• By Susan Glaspell
• (1882-1948)

http//wiredforbooks.org/trifles/
First performed in 1916
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Type of Play

• One-act, American 19th century drama

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Plot Identify Types of Conflict

• Person vs. Person
• Person vs. Self
• Person vs. Environment
• (social or natural)
• Person vs. God

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Setting

• Natural or Artificial?
• Hostile or Friendly?
• Early 1900s
• American Midwest
• Farmhouse kitchen

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Characterization

• Protagonist Mrs. Wright
• Antagonist Men? Society? Mrs. Hale and Mrs.
  Peters? The Law?
• The social climate is the central antagonist

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Characterization

• John Wright
• Good man
• Hard man
• Closemouthed
• Stingy

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Mrs. Wright

• Pretty and lively when young Minnie Foster
• Sang in choir
• Homemaker when married
• Lonely
• Childless
• Married to Mr. Right

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Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale

• The women are unsure of each other
• Mrs. Peters Married to the law
• Mrs. Hale Minis neighbor
• Uneasily discover, discuss clues
• Mrs. Wright is tried by a jury of her peers

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Mr. Peters and Mr. Hale

• In charge
• Mocking of women
• Supportive of each other
• Concerned with law and the big picture

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Symbol

• The bird
• The bird cage
• The Quilt
• Quilt it or Knot it
• The cold
• Married to the law
• That was a crime
• Names Mr. and Mrs. Wright/Right

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Theme

• Trends of society and the law can be cruel and
  unfeeling and inhumane
• Laws at that time were made and enforced by men,
  with harsh consequences