What Is Susan Glaspell's Trifles?

Although fictional and nonfictional topics contain different arguments, they can both demonstrate a universal case, gender discrimination. The fictional text, Trifles by Susan Glaspell displays the same issues about the effects of gender stereotypes found in the nonfictional texts, Philosophical and Political Issues Surrounding Gender and I Want a Wife by Judy Brady. In Trifles, a crime case is introduced to three men and two wives, in which it exhibits the diverse views and opinions each gender develops. The article, Philosophical and Political Issues Surrounding Gender, discusses issues about gender that includes how people have different attitudes toward women and men, how gender has limitations and different privileges, and how sexist language

Philosophical and Political Issues Surrounding Gender exposes how the usage of sexist language will result in effects, such as how the men in Trifles judged Mrs. Wright based on the way she had left her house. At the crime scene, the men have a bias conversation, referring to Minnie Wright after the women mentioned her preserves, “COUNTY ATTORNEY: I guess before we’re through she may have something more serious than preserves to worry about. HALE: Well, women are used to worrying over trifles” (Glaspell 63). The county attorney rudely adds to the women’s topic, “she may have something more serious than preserves to worry about,” which shows how little respect men have for women during this time period. He indicates that the preserves are not “serious” enough to be considered or conversed about in his presence. He also mentions their expected successfulness by saying “before we’re through,” which displays the immense confidence in himself and the men to solve the case. Hale’s stereotypic remark, “women are used to worrying over trifles,” shows the thoughts men have for women about worrying over matters of very little value. Likewise, the article discuss how gender discrimination can be caused by both genders’ usage of sexist language when writing or talking to acknowledge someone, “The concern with sexist language is that people do not really perceive he as

Women throughout the world fall under specific titles and descriptions, which results in being mistreated and misused. When the lawyer attempts to clean his hands, he notices the roller towels are dirty, “Not much of a housekeeper, would you say, ladies? MRS HALE: (stiffly) There’s a great deal of work to be done on a farm. COUNTY ATTORNEY: To be sure. And yet…I know there are some Dickson county farmhouses, which do not have such roller towels” (Glaspell 63). The lawyer complains about the state of the house, because the assumed description of a household taken care by a wife does not match with the one he is currently in. His sarcastic tone unveils when he states, “Not much of a housekeeper, would you say ladies?,” and it indicates his disapproval of Minnie Wright, because she had left the house in a messy atmosphere when women are viewed as being capable of the role of a “housekeeper.” Mrs. Hale stiffened from annoyance at the County Attorney because he was judging Minnie Wright when he had no experience whatsoever on the duties and tasks of a housewife. The lawyer’s statement, “To be sure” shows his determination in the concept that women must do better at keeping the house tidy because women are required and expected to take on this fitted job, “I know there are some Dickson county farmhouse, which do not have such roller