Trifles Essay

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Trifles Character Analysis – “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell, Mrs. Hale After reading the play “Trifles”, written by Susan Glaspell in 1916, there is much revealed through the story line and the characters that “A Jury of Her Piers” by Susan Glaspell left out in the short story. There are five main characters in this one act play but the two women characters, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters truly define the outcome of the story. The character I will be discussing at length is Mrs. Hale. She is a neighbor of the victim and the wife of the man who describes the crime which has taken place in this Midwest farm town. 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. To be specific, the county attorney, the sheriff, and Mr. Hale are looking for a motive to the crime, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, the sheriff’s wife, have been brought along to gather a few things together to take to Mrs.Wright at the jail. As the men look for concrete evidence and clues to this grisly murder, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are looking for Mrs. Wright’s apron and a few extra articles of clothing. The two women remain in the downstairs, mostly the

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