This document provides context and summaries for the play "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell. It notes that Glaspell was a pioneering American playwright and founder of the Provincetown Players. The play is set in the early 20th century Midwest and focuses on a murder investigation in a farmhouse kitchen. It is seen as an early work of feminist drama because the two female characters are able to understand the motives of the murdered man's wife by paying attention to small "trifles" rather than just facts, as the male investigators do.

1. TRIFLES
By: Susan Glaspell

2. About Susan Glaspell :
- Born in: 1876 •
- She was am American publisher prize-winning play •
wright , novelist , director and a poet.
- She was a founding member of the Provincetown •
players one of the most important collaborative in the
development of drama in the U.S
- She graduated from drake university in Des Moines with •
a bachelor degree in 1899
- She worked as the murder trial of John Hassock in 1900 •
, which would be the basis for her play Trifles
- She died in 1948 •

3. About the play:
Is seen as an example of early feminist drama because •
it's two female characters Mrs. Peters and Hales , ability
and to sympathize with the victim's wife , Minnie and so
understand her motives , that lead them to the evidence
( the dead bird ) against her , while men care are builded
by their cold emotionless investigation of material facts.

4. Time of the play:
Early 20th C , it's winter and cold weather •

5. Place:
Kitchen of Mrs. Wright ( farm house ) , in the American •
mid-west.

6. The characters:
1- The sheerf •
2- The county aterni •
3- Mrs. Hale •
4- Mrs. Patters ( the sheerf's wife ) •

7. The symbolic:
1-The bird •
A) Ms. Wright's soul •
B) Beauty •
C) Weakness •
2- Kitchen and tasks •
3- Upper-floor = Men's spirit •

8. Q: Why the title is ironic ?
The play explores the fact that women pay attention to the •
little things that may lead to the solving of a bigger
problem , In the play the men seem to think the women
only worry about trifles. What the men do not realize is
that the women are actually solving the murder of Mr.
Wright by worrying over small details such as fruit jar m
quilt ..etc. this is because the man in the play abridge the
wright's house where her found dead.