Santa Monica College Play Trifles Analysis

Please answer the following questions regarding Glaspell’s Trifles. Each answer should be one paragraph long, and each answer should contain at least two pieces of textual evidence from the play (specific lines or phrases from the play that you incorporate as quotations). When putting the quotes in, please make sure to quote it and properly reference them. I am attaching the play link as well.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10623/10623-h/1062…

1, Note the categorization of men and women along gender lines. What role do the repeated categorizations of men and women along gender lines play in the finding/preservation of Mrs. Wright’s guilt? What reason does the play provide for the men’s inability to determine Mrs. Wright’s guilt and for the women’s ability to determine Mrs. Wright’s guilt?

2. Note the county attorney’s repeated shifts—moments when he cuts off or redirects the conversation. What role do such moments play? What is the idea being implied?

3. Note the many times characters (male and female) reinterpret, revise initial statements, hold back from full expression. What role do such moments play? What is the idea being implied?