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Susan Glaspell's Trifles - The Way to Sisterhood
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Susan Glaspell's Trifles, the one-act play has been rediscovered and reinterpreted as a feminist text since the late 1970s. A year after the original production, Trifles was reworked into the short story “A Jury of Her Peers”. Many critics reevaluate her innovative contributions to American theater, her life and career as a playwright and novelist. The farmhouse of John Wright is described as isolated, forlorn, and cheerless and the desolate farmhouse symbolizes the protagonist's emotional repression and alienation. The murder of Wright has already happened the night before the plot begins and Minnie is in jail as the suspect of the crime. The absence of Minnie represents women's invisibility and oppression in the patriarchal world. Some male authorities try to find a motive for Minnie's strangling of her husband, but they fail to find the clues because they cannot read the emotion in the domestic trifles. They disparage women are used to worrying over trifles. In contrast, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale recollect the life and experience of an absent Minnie and realize that all the evidence of Minnie's uneven sewing, of the birdcage with its broken door, and the dead canary with its broken neck point to a motive for Minnie to take revenge on Mr. Wright. The women discover the motive for the crime and the reason for its peculiar execution. Women's common experience connects them, brings them closer to each other. It is noted that as the title of the short story adapted from Trifles is "A Jury of Her Peers," Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters have served as jury. At the end of this play, the women show female solidarity and the bonds of sisterhood by not telling her the truth about her ruined preserves and by concealing the dead canary that is the evidence of Minnie's crime. Trifles concludes with an image of women bonding together, defying male authority. This sense of sisterhood makes this drama less pessimistic and gives hopeful perspective to the readers and audiences.
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Susan Glaspell's Trifles, the one-act play has been rediscovered and reinterpreted as a feminist text since the late 1970s. A year after the original production, Trifles was reworked into the short story “A Jury of Her Peers”. Many critics reevaluate her innovative contributions to American theater, her life and career as a playwright and novelist. The farmhouse of John Wright is described as isolated, forlorn, and cheerless and the desolate farmhouse symbolizes the protagonist's emotional repression and alienation. The murder of Wright has already happened the night before the plot begins and Minnie is in jail as the suspect of the crime. The absence of Minnie represents women's invisibility and oppression in the patriarchal world. Some male authorities try to find a motive for Minnie's strangling of her husband, but they fail to find the clues because they cannot read the emotion in the domestic trifles. They disparage women are used to worrying over trifles. In contrast, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale recollect the life and experience of an absent Minnie and realize that all the evidence of Minnie's uneven sewing, of the birdcage with its broken door, and the dead canary with its broken neck point to a motive for Minnie to take revenge on Mr. Wright. The women discover the motive for the crime and the reason for its peculiar execution. Women's common experience connects them, brings them closer to each other. It is noted that as the title of the short story adapted from Trifles is "A Jury of Her Peers," Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters have served as jury. At the end of this play, the women show female solidarity and the bonds of sisterhood by not telling her the truth about her ruined preserves and by concealing the dead canary that is the evidence of Minnie's crime. Trifles concludes with an image of women bonding together, defying male authority. This sense of sisterhood makes this drama less pessimistic and gives hopeful perspective to the readers and audiences.
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