Tifles

Tifles

  • Submitted By: fuyuki
  • Date Submitted: 03/04/2009 4:07 PM
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In Susan Gaspell's play Trifles questions gender roles between men and women and the way we see ones perception of another persons life. After Mrs. Hale trifle about the food preserves being frozen and cracked Mrs Hale and Mrs. Peters investigate further. In the transition of investigating, Mrs Hale and Mrs. Peters find a box containing a dead bird with its neck wrung. Mrs. Peters argues with Mrs. Hale stating that the, “law has got to punish crime”(1235). This conflict between the two women ensues in a moral issue about whether or not the women should tell the Country Attorney and Mr. Hale of the evidence they have found. Mrs. Peters does not feel the same sympathy for Mrs. Wright at first. However, the women sympathize with Mrs. Wright situation after carefully discussing possible outcomes and reasons for the murder of Mr. Wright. Their prediction was that Mrs. Wright was in a abusive relationship with her husband, and the only friend she had, the bird, was murdered in cold blood. Thus, the murder of the bird led to Mrs. Wrights actions towards Mr. Wright. In conclusion, Susan Gaspell's captures the reader with insightful, yet mildly chilling conclusion to leave the reader with a cliffhanger, as the curtain rolls down.In Susan Gaspell's play Trifles questions gender roles between men and women and the way we see ones perception of another persons life. After Mrs. Hale trifle about the food preserves being frozen and cracked Mrs Hale and Mrs. Peters investigate further. In the transition of investigating, Mrs Hale and Mrs. Peters find a box containing a dead bird with its neck wrung. Mrs. Peters argues with Mrs. Hale stating that the, “law has got to punish crime”(1235). This conflict between the two women ensues in a moral issue about whether or not the women should tell the Country Attorney and Mr. Hale of the evidence they have found. Mrs. Peters does not feel the same sympathy for Mrs. Wright at first. However, the women sympathize with Mrs. Wright situation...