I love this play. The women figure out the crime while the men pretend they know how to investigate. This reminds me of "Murder, She Wrote."
The coolest is that people who were in jail at that time got to have some comforts of home brought to them in their cells.
Anyway, I like the way all the little pieces--the trifles--fit together to show us what happened. The policeman's wife faces a real dilemma and makes a difficult choice. And the last line is so ironic. Funny.
Trifles Essays
Trifles literature essays are academic essays for citation. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of Trifles.
- The Unheimlich in Susan Glaspell's Play Trifles: A Feminist Interpretation of Freud's Uncanny
- Layers of Significance in Susan Glaspell's "Trifles"
- From Courtroom to Stage: Susan Glaspell's "Trifles"
- The Institution of Marriage in Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” and Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles”
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