Rhonda Eng 232 "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell

Susan Glaspell
Susan’s mission was to make sure that women were heard and not ignored. She had a hard time with this because she wrote plays at a time that men dominated the playwright’s. She was raised by a middle class family. She had moved around a lot trying to find jobs that would benefit her most. Finally she came back to America and started working in New York City. She end up marrying a man named George Cook. Together they had formed the first serious of modern American drama. This drama was based on real problems that the American people faced.

Trifles
In the beginning of the story we have Sheriff that is dropping by Mr. Wright’s house to work up a business deal. Mrs. Wright is sitting in her rocker and she seems a little nervous. Hale (sheriff) asked to speak to her husband and she says no and starts to laugh. Later on Hale discovers that her husband is dead and has been hung. Mrs. Wright is then questioned and states that she was sleeping and didn’t know what happened. She states that she found him dead and that he had been hung. The sheriff asked her whether she was in the bed with her husband. Mrs. Wright states that she was in the bed with her husband but that she was a sound sleeper. The sheriff searched the home and didn’t find any proof of an intruder. What they did find was in an apron that Mrs. Wright wanted with her at jail. Inside the apron was a dead bird. Later on they discover the bird was killed the same way her husband was killed. The town people knew Mr. Wright and knew he wasn’t an animal lover. The story kind of leaves you hanging as far as knowing exactly what had killed her husband. Most of the evidence, points to Mrs. Wright that she had killed her husband because he killed her pet. I personally think that she killed her husband because he killed her pet. The way that he died and the way that they pet died is definitely too familiar to ignore.