Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles”. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
A 5 page essay that draws on sources in order to discuss the points made by Susan Glaspell in her 1916 play “Trifles,” which deals with a murder case in which a woman has strangled an abuse husband. As a sheriff and county attorney investigate the crime scene, two women who accompany them in order to pick up a few belonging for the incarcerated suspect figure out motive and method but do not inform the men. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Page Count:
5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_khsgtr4.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
group, might take action that they would not take as individuals, due to their recognition of shared experiences and a "new respect for the value of their lives as women,"
which is "different from, but certain equal to, the world of men" (Marsh 201). In her play, Glaspell creates male characters who are totally oblivious to the various clues in
the Wright home that are obvious to the female characters about what occurred at this remote and isolated murder scene. A close reading of this work shows that Glaspells portrayal
of this male myopia is not only convincing and realistic, but remains relevant in contemporary society as men, to this day, continue to disregard female experience as inconsequential. The men
and women in the play have very different perspectives of the plays setting from the onset. The men arrive at the isolated and lonely farmhouse and proceed systematically from the
position that they are investigating a crime scene (Holstein 282). John Wright has been murdered in his bed. Someone put a noose over his head and strangled him. She is
the chief suspect in the murder, and the women who accompany the investigators are there to gather a few of her things for her, as Mrs. Wright is incarcerated. The
men are following a "preset plan" in their search for evidence and are, therefore, convinced at the end of the play that they have made note of any details that
are of importance, yet, at the end of the play, they know no more than they did at the beginning (Holstein 282). The men do not notice the plethora of
details that collectively tell the story of the murder because they discount the small things that make up a womans life as "trifles." For example, in regards to Mrs. Wright
...