Trifles

A Justified “Revenge” in Trifles



Throughout history, society has defined the way a woman lived and the minor role she held in whether private or public life. Through her play Trifles, Susan Graspell specifically reflects the harsh, unfair and confined conditions that a married woman faced in the early 18th century. In the play, characters, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters suppress evidence which would be able to convict Mrs. Wright, the imprisoned murder suspect of her husband John Wright. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters made the right decision for covering up evidence for Mrs. Wright because they know better than any of the men that the murder can be excused because it is the result of the exposure of anger which accumulated in Mrs. Wright from the life she has with John Wright.
Even though Mrs. Wright has never appeared in the play, the idea that men see woman as inferior, unintelligent and unsophscated figure compare to themselves is a prevalent theme in the play. For example, w...