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Peters discovers the dead bird in Mrs. And when I type Glaspell on my computer it always wants to change it to Gaskell.

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Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times. The basic feminine sense of self is connected to the world, the basic masculine sense of self is separate. Staples Lois Hattery Tiffany. Her husband, on the other hand, has become an icon of aggression, cruelty, and masculine oppression. After graduation from high school, she worked as a newspaper reporter for the Davenport Morning Republican, then as the society editor for the Weekly Outlook.

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Glaspell differentiates between her male and female antagonists as they enter the Wright farmhouse at the beginning of the play. It is a model of subtlety and understatement. Lewis Hale, a neighbor, is next to enter. Riley, Glenda and Richard W. In so doing, she excuses the relative immorality of the play itself. Like the ragtime music at the turn of the century, rap has its roots in black American culture, but has fans in all segments of society.

Ruth B. Drake University BA. The devastating effects of isolation—especially on women—is another theme of the play. Of the two women in the play, Mrs. ISBN The author found herself feeling more and more sympathy for the accused, in spite of the grisly nature of the crime. Joyce Boone Chapman Michelle D. Peters when her pet kitten had been brutally slain.

Lawther Alice Van Wert Murray. The setting for Trifles, a bleak, untidy kitchen in an abandoned rural farmhouse, quickly establishes the claustrophobic mood of the play. Trietsch, Davis. Through close-up e. Yet women earned significantly less than their male counterparts, and most were relegated to jobs in domestic service , textile factories, or offices.

Her first play, Trifles , was based on the murder trial she had covered as a young reporter in Des Moines. Since Kohlberg perceives the expansion of moral understanding moving from the preconventional or individual through the conventional or societal to the post-conventional or universal , women, who see the self and other as interdependent, whose moral judgments are more closely tied to feelings of empathy and compassion, who see moral problems as problems of responsibility in relationship, are more closely aligned with the conventional, a less mature stage of development.

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