The women are left in the kitchen where, according to the Sheriff, there are “nothing but kitchen things”(Glaspell 1070). His comment was in response to the County Attorney’s question about the Sheriff being “convinced that there was nothing important” in the kitchen “nothing that would point to any motive” (Glaspell 1070). The word trifle is used once in the play to indicate how the men think of what the women are doing in the kitchen while the
“The Trifles” written by Susan Glaspell in 1916, takes place in an abandoned farmhouse owned by John Wright. The First scene is in a “gloomy” messy kitchen where the first characters, County attorney, and the sheriff arrive with the witnesses the neighbors, Mrs. Peters, Mr. and Mrs. Hale and Hale. The sheriff is doing an investigation of John Wright’s murder and Hale recounts how he discovered Mrs. Wright acting bizarrely, as she told him how her husband died. The County attorney and the sheriff found it weird how Mr. Wright was straggled by a rope when there’s a gun in the house. The two complain of how the women are worrying about the trifles instead of the murder.
Mr. Hale, a neighbor of John and Minnie Wright, drops by their farmhouse to visit with John regarding his interest in installing a party phone line in which they could share the expense. It was early morning and he was quite certain the couple would be up tending to their daily chores on the farm. When he believes he hears someone say come in, he enters the home to find Mrs. Wright rocking back and forth in her rocker. He asks if he can speak to John, but is told that he cannot because John is dead. When he asks how it happened, Mrs. Wright says “He died of a rope around his neck…I didn’t wake up…I sleep sound.” The opening scene is the following morning after Mrs. Wright was detained at the county jail, and all five of the main characters are gathered at the Wright’s farmhouse to investigate the crime.
And through even relatively shallow literary analysis, one would be able to see that such a story as this is better off in second person as opposed to third or first person for a few reasons. If one were to examine the context in which the short story was published and even the story on a purely macroscopic level, it should be quite apparent that a story such as this is a piece of satire. Through the rather extreme story of a woman making every wrong choice possible in a relationship and reacting sometimes even worse, this story is a much more intellectual piece of satire than the average article on The Onion. If one takes into account the time period that it was written (2007) and that during that time and some years before, there was a genre of articles that could be labeled ‘self-help’. Almost all of these self-help articles were/are written in the second person, informing the reader of how to be a better romantic partner, make him/her like you, or build more muscle or lose weight.
It is significantly unprofessional by acting the way she did by arguing to the point that the customers heard her and throwing the plate. By her being sent home immediately, it shows that there is no place for unprofessionalism within the restaurant. * Three inappropriate actions taken by The Big Cheese staff: * When an employee is sent home due to illness, whoever next in charge needs to be aware of the situation and complete tasks that are needed. Employees such as another Warehouse Supervisor, Assistant Manager, or General Manager have to fill the task of receiving and storing the food delivery. Having absolutely no one on the receiving end of the delivery is irresponsible and shows lack of management.
I believe the most significant part of the Tess of the D’Urbevilles is located within the last few pages of the novel. The murdering of Alec promotes a feminist approach to writing which Hardy attempts to undertake in places throughout the book, empowering Tess. This contrasts with the in depth detail he usually acquires, which is not apparent in the description of the murder. The reader neither reads how Tess murders Alec or what the murder scene looks like, in order for Hardy to maintain Tess’s ‘purity’. Additionally, it is likely that the fact Tess murders was enough of a controversial subject, without Hardy having to describe it, to shock the readers.
One of the most important lines in the play, “Well, women are used to worrying over trifles” (Trifles 1339) is a representation of the message which Glaspell intended to portray. That line contains the first comment which the audience sees as negative toward women. This type of degradation toward women is displayed throughout the entire play. The aforementioned line also contains irony because what the men see as “trifles”, the women use to solve the murder of Mr. Wright. Glaspell creates more irony by using the men’s degrading remarks towards the women; for example, the county attorney makes the comment that “a sheriff’s wife is married to the law” (1344).
'Perfume' tells a story in which the protagonist’s precarious position between olfactory prowess and lack of body odour motivates a string of despicable murders. One possible interpretation could be that the protagonist’s ‘ontological crisis’ comes about because of his absent mother, therefore, his lack of morals and resulting actions against women are a direct result of this earlier treatment. The amoral actions we see later in Grenouille’s characterisation could be a direct response to the events depicted in the opening chapter. Suskind chooses the structure of the opening chapter deliberately, to open the story in a way that both foreshadows and emphasizes the murderous actions of the protagonist and possibly hint that such actions are a direct result of the protagonists treatment at the very beginning of his life. Indeed the circumstances of Grenouille’s birth might prompt a feminist interpretation to look at what happens when a child is abandoned and raised without a mother.
Hepzibah is forced to open a cent shop in the home because she is nearly destitute, although her cousin, Judge Pyncheon has tried to subsidize her over the years. The house had originally been built by the ancestral Mr Pyncheon, after he stole the land from a Mr Maule. Maule refused to give over his land when he was alive, so Pyncheon help convict him of witchery in order to have him put to death. Pyncheon then takes control of the land and hires Maule’s son to build the house. On the day of the housewarming party, as all the neighbors show up to the unveiling, Pyncheon is found dead in his study.
This is identified in Act Two, Scene Two where Macbeth converses with Lady Macbeth about the death of Duncan. Lady Macbeth is given a reason to condescend and patronize Macbeth because of his self paralysing guilt, which lead him thoughtlessly not leaving the bloody daggers at the murder scene, leaving Lady Macbeth the dangerous task of returning the daggers, due to Macbeth’s plagued worry. ‘I’ll go no more. I am afraid to think what I have done” (P.39). This demonstrates Macbeths’ weakness in character, also juxtaposes with Lady Macbeth as she is a strong character and shows that Macbeth is easily manipulated.