The Triffles
"The Trifle" by Susan Glaspell is a murder mystery that involves gender relationships, power between the sexes, and the nature of truth. The setting for "The Trifle" is a bleak, untidy kitchen in an abandoned rural farmhouse, quickly establishes the claustrophobic mood of the play. While a cold winter wind blows outside, the characters file in one at a time to investigate a violent murder: the farm's owner, John Wright, was apparently strangled to death while he slept, and his wife, Minnie, has been taken into custody as a suspect in the crime. The sheriff, Henry Peters, is the first to enter the farmhouse, followed by George Henderson, the attorney prosecuting the case. Lewis Hale, a neighbor, is next to...
In this play, a farmer and his wife are never actually present but yet the story focuses on the prosecutor, George Henderson. George was the man who was been called in to investigate the murder. Henry Peters, the local sheriff; Lewis Hale, a neighboring farmer who......
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