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by Susan Glaspell

Susan Glaspell wrote Trifles in 1916, basing this brief, one-act play on the murder of the sixty-year-old John Hossack, which she had covered extensively during her stint as a journalist with the Des Moines Daily News after her graduation from Drake University. She traveled to the scene of the crime…

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Posted By john s #238185 at Mar 20, 2012 8:15 PM

Trifles questions ??

What attitudes toward women do the sheriff and the county attorney express? How do Mrs. Hale and Mr.s Peters react to these sentiments?

What does Glaspell show us about the position of women in this early twentieth-century community ?

What do we learn about the married life of the Wrights? By what means is this knowledge revealed to us?

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Posted By denese s #236911 at Mar 14, 2012 4:16 PM

What do you perceive the roles of Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale to be at different parts of the play?Sa

Please excerpt from the play.

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Posted By jessica r #230933 at Feb 16, 2012 3:05 PM

what type of literature is Trifles?

type of literature

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Posted By shalisa f #229601 at Feb 14, 2012 5:20 PM

what are some examples of the men patronizing the women in the play of trifles?

its a play called the trifles.

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