Trifles by Susan Glaspell (1916)

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More than Trifles : Gender Difference in Susan Glaspell 's Trifles

The one-act play Trifles ' written by Susan Glaspell revolves around a crime mystery that occurred in some small town farming village . The story involves two male investigators , who , along with their wives search the victim 's house for clues regarding his murder . of those who are directly involved in the murder appears in the story , but their trail marks leave the main characters with pieces of evidence that lead to solving the crime . What is

striking about the story - other than the mystery of the murder 's identity itself - is that the methods which the male characters and the female characters use in observing and making conclusions to the mystery based on the evidence they see around the house are starkly disparate . Further , when the evidence presents the women with an undeniable conclusion as to the murderer 's identity , they reveal how differently they view justice , valuing ethics over morality as opposed to their male counterparts . From this observation , I propose the following thesis in analyzing the play : in the one-act play Trifles ' Susan Glaspell explores the gender differences of men and women in terms of the role assigned to them by society and their perception of morality and ethics

As a theoretical framework to my analysis of the play , I will employ a feminist perspective to make sound arguments regarding the gender differences evidently tackled in the play . This framework makes sense considering that...