Trifles Review
‘Trifles’- An interesting play written by Susan Glaspell in 1916, is a play dealing with mystery and murder, revenge and deceit, and is full of irony from beginning to end. Seven characters form the cast, although 2 are non-active and will not be viewed; only spoken of. The County Attorney is a young man who seems for the most part to have a solid interest in his work. Although the County Attorney has a professional demeanor, he still joins in and laughs at the comments that the Sheriff direct towards the ladies.
The Sheriff is a middle-aged man with a demeaning attitude towards women. The Sheriff continuously and erroneously makes derogatory comments, laughing at Mrs. Wrights request for her preserved after she is held for murder, and at the quilt and other items that Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters gather together to take to the jailed Minnie Wright. (These items end up lending clues to the motive of the murder)
John Wright is the owner of the farmhouse that the play takes......
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