Susan Glaspell's Readings

Susan Glaspell defined a strong woman. Coming up as a writer in what seemed to be a man era, she had to fight that much harder to make it. The story Trifles is kind of crazy to me. The fact that they portray that the ultimate reason that Mrs. Wright killed her husband because he killed her bird is very surprising to me. They mentioned that her husband Mr. Wright was a very hard man. He was abusive and killed her youth. That alone could definitely push a woman over the edge though, I will agree. I am not sure if leaving was an option as the story did not mention whether or not Mrs. Wright had any family that should could have gone to or not to get away from abusive husband. It is sad that things turned out this way. That the fact that the only thing the woman felt that she could do to escape her husband’s abuse was to kill him. You still hear about things like this happening even today. It was ironic that the two women that found the bird’s dead body was actually women and not the men that were upstairs and came past and laughed at their conversation. The women looked out for their fellow woman. Which is actually what the author stood for.