Susan Glaspell's Trifles

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Suzy Clarkson Holstein wrote a literary criticism about Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles”. Writing mostly about the major differences in the men and the women characters in the play. Holstein goes into detail about how the men look through the scene of the crime in a very legal and investigative view, looking for major clues that would tell why Mrs. Wright would kill her husband. But find nothing in doing so. And the women of the play, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale look through the other parts of the house that were already deemed unimportant to their husbands. They look at it in a way that the house reflects Minnie’s life with her husband.

Holstein also writes a lot about the tone, and how it changes when the women decide to keep the information they