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A 4 page paper which examines the symbolism in Trifles by Susan Glaspell. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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by the men, yet women who are smart and wise enough o unravel the mystery of the death of one man. Through their simply take on what they find in
the home, coupled with their own experiences in life as women, they are able to conclude that the wife of the man was the one who killed him. But, they
are not women who will tell the men this, keeping their secret to themselves for the sake of women perhaps. Throughout this play there are subtle and powerful examples of
symbolism and much of that symbolism points to the oppression of women in a world of men. The following paper examines how the symbolism in Glaspells story is used to
demonstrate the social position of women at the time. Trifles by Susan Glaspell In first establishing the premise that the symbolism within this story points to the oppression
of women one first notes that in this story the men wandering through the house are the judicial powers for they are men, one of them a sheriff. In the
world of Glaspell, and women, in 1916, men possessed all the legal power: "The story is written from the perspective of those closed out of a legal system--in this instance,
women--and how they react when that legal system is about to destroy one of their own. Women did not make homicide law as it existed in 1916: they could not
be judges; they could not be legislators; they could not vote until 1920; they could not serve on juries in most states until the 1940s" (Angel). This particular author
makes an intriguing statement concerning the symbolism stating that as women were generally confined to matters of the home, so this particular woman illustrates as much, and the story does
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