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Triffes of fate
On the surface, Susan Glaspell's play Trifles focuses on a wife murdering her oppressive husband. The husband is abusing his wife emotionally out on a lonely secluded farm isolated from society in the Midwest. Under the surface, the behaviors of Mrs. Hale, Mrs. Peters, and Mrs. Wright in Glaspell's play to those of ....
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.... connection of Mr. Wrights's Involvement in the physical death of the canary and spiritual death of his wife. The way the men joke about the women's concern about Mrs. Wright's intention "to quilt or just knot" the quilt evokes a defensive remark from Mrs. Hale in which she hints that it is unwise to tempt fate; she asserts, "I don't see as it's anything to laugh about" (Glaspell571). Finally, by "just pulling out a stitch or two that's not sewed very good" and replacing it with her own stitching (Glaspell571), Mrs., Hale symbolically claims her position as t ....
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