Susan Glaspell's Trifles

“Trifles”, by Susan Glaspell, describes the ultimate women’s suffrage story. Cleverness will be the key to retaining power from the men in this story. The one thing that woman are criticized for is the idea that women tend to look at the ‘little picture’ instead of the ‘whole picture’.
Married women throughout history have been portrayed as inferring with husband in marriage. This seems to be the case with Mrs. Wright. First, from the discovery of the broken door, I concluded that John was very physical. Then it is assumed that Mrs. Wright’s husband had broken her canary’s neck. The fate of the bird was the fate of her husband. John was discovered with a rope tied around his neck. While professional detectives were busy looking throughout …show more content…
She is a hard worker and is happy with the results of her hard work. The only thing holding her back is her husband.
Delia was singing a song and wondering where her husband, Sykes is since he has her horse and working equipment. As she wonders where he is, she feels something like a snake fall around her shoulders and screams. She looks up and sees her husband standing over her with the bullwhip he uses to ride the horses. Delia’s husband is an imposing and oppressive …show more content…
Nestled inside the box was a giant rattlesnake that Sykes caught. He refuses to get rid of it, even though it is driving Delia mad. One night, Delia comes home to find that the snake was loose. She was able to get out of the house and waits for her husband to come home. He makes a lot of noise in the kitchen and is bitten by the snake. Instead of helping him, Delia simply lets him die.
We have to decide if Delia was too afraid to move to get help for her husband, or, she purposefully let him die. I think she purposefully lets him die. Sykes treats Delia terrible and I think Delia is fed up with how she gets treated.
In both stories the theme is related to the husband’s death. In “Trifles”, Mrs. Wright is tired of how her husband acts at home so she practices “knotting” on her bird. The women in the story realize that the bird and Mr. Wright died the same way and the knot that was tied around their necks just like the knot that Mrs. Wright uses when she ties quilts. In the story “Sweat”, Delia does not try to save her husband from the snake, resulting with the snake killing Sykes. These stories are similar in the ways that the women are fed up with their husbands so they kill their

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