Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
A 4 page analysis of the play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Page Count:
4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAtrigl.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
in charge of looking for clues, and two local woman, who are also looking at the state of the house. It is a play wherein the men seem to be
in charge, looking around for answers they never find, while the women pay attention to small details about the woman who lived there, discussing her and inadvertently understanding how and
why the murder occurred. The following paper examines this play from a gender perspective. Trifles As mentioned this play involves men, one of them a sheriff, looking for
clues in a house that was inhabited by a man and wife, the Wrights. Mr. Wright has been killed, strangled with a rope, and the wife was found, the previous
night, sitting in a rocking chair looking dazed. The men are looking around to find any clues they can to the events that took place, acting incredibly important an intelligent
as they search. The County Attorney says, "I guess well go upstairs first--and then out to the barn and around there. (To the Sheriff). Youre convinced that there was nothing
important here--nothing that would point to any motive?" (Glaspell). While they conduct their search two women who have come along, one of them the wife of the Sheriff, look
at Mrs. Wrights kitchen and her home. They are talking about her with deep compassion and empathy, discussing her jarred fruit freezing, which is such a pity because they understand
how hard it is to work and put food up only to have it ruined. They are very thorough examiners, something the men are not. The men, on the other
hand, simply ridicule these women for their discussions and their worrying about her food and other items as evident when the Sheriff says to the Attorney, "They wonder if she
...