thoughts on Trifles

Trifles by Susan Glaspell is a wonderful murder mystery, which illustrates the gender inequalities of early 1900’s. In the play she effectively creates the dramatic tension marked by the gloomy setting and dialogue. The play depicts men’s unwillingness to understand the female condition, Glaspell shows how women are dismissed and displaced by men in the social order. The version of the short story does not generate the same effect. The lack of dramatic tension and suspense in the short story doesn’t portray the patriarchic control in the same way.