Trifles

Trifles is like most drama and movies we seen on tv which showcases the insignificant and extreme undermining of women in the later life. Later life here is in the sense of the life after marriage. This is my opinion on this one act play entitled Triffles by Susan Glaspel. I find that its sense of feminism still intact somehow through the story line. Readers could clearly see the symbolism masquerade as being an object of unworthy of an explicit description. For example, the way the two women give away the hint  of the murder that they could see when they were going through the Wright’s house. It sort of tells us that the women are solving the case yet the man didn’t realize it and that the women are underappreciated. The men were as oblivious as can be. This shows a very similar situation with the oppression of woman in the late 19 th and early 20^th. The only difference is that, now, it has gotten to a more abstract and indirect approach.

                In addition to that, this play have a few outstanding yet simple irony potrayed through out.  Firstly, in the title itself, “Triffles” which means the small insignificant thing, those underestimated stuff that could actually be big. For example the clues that the woman have derived on by looking at the crime scene. Another irony is in the name of Mr and Mrs Wright. In view of Mrs Wright, it somehow brought about the meaning of woman right for the initial of ‘W’ and the following ‘right’.  As for Mr Wright, although his name spelled right, he was not always in the right. The third would be the canary which has been the biggest clues in solving the mystery of who actually committed the murder. Why? Well we know perfectly well who the murder is just by looking at how the dead bird is being wrapped up in the box. Although the actual murder still remain a mystery at the end of the play, we could actually tell that it was Mrs Wright .