Susan Glaspells Trifles - Some Observations :: Trifles Essays

Trifles I would like to make three major points. Major 1 Since this is the first converge weve read, the stage direction really caught my eye and I tended to consider it in truth seriously in determining the meaning of the work. The most obvious direction, which the experiment by Parrish discusses, is that neither Mr. nor Mrs. Wright ever appear in the converge, and Glaspell was the first to use this type of direction (which was later recognized as uniquely her own.) Other important examples of the plays direction (not speak lines) are ( ... she is disturbed now and looks fearfully nigh as she enters.) (Stops, his lay out twitches.) In a manner of returning to familiar things.) Glaspell uses this direction some(prenominal) times. (Silence then as if struck by a happy estimate and relieved to spend a penny back to everyday things.) (Mrs. Hale glances in a covert way at Mrs. Peters.) (Pulling herself back.) this is an emotional direction, not a somatogenic one Glaspells de cision to present Trifles as a play instead of its short story original form (titled A dialog box of Her Peers) gives the reader an opportunity to see the action better than usual, and therefore get a clearer understanding of the authors meaning. Major 2 What is the consequence of maintain? I see the literal meaning, but what is Glaspell saying about a womans act of preserving things? The action in the play keeps going back to this jar of preserves (example if the jar gets too cold, it breaks preserves make a sticky mess they dont indispensableness to let Minnie know the jars broke and are not preserved.) Major 3 Does anyone know about quilting? Im looking for to a greater extent specific information on statute mileting vs. quilting? I think Glaspell is using this craft (and it is a way of exhibition like writing and painting) very subtly to get her message across, but I dont have adequacy information to see it, although I do see the significance of knotting and the knot a round Mr. Wrights neck that killed him. Can anyone help?   Parrish writes in her essay that Glaspell wrote and produced many plays, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1931. It is interesting and purposeful to read drama because it finds yet another way for women to find and express their voices. Parrish states that Glaspells writing focused on womens desire for equality and acknowledgement in a mans world.