The Annie Proulx short story, "55 Miles to the Gas Pump" portrays the troubled mind of Rancher Croom, which his wife unveils after making a gruesome discovery. Rancher Croom, described as a unique, seemingly strange man commits suicide off a canyon cliff as result of a drunken night. Quickly changing to the point of view of Mrs. Croom, although banned from entering, she uncovers her husbands hidden and extremely revolting treasure of murdered women, those of who she recognized from the news paper
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An example of something that shows us a lot of examples of 3rd wave feminism and is often compared to Glaspell’s Trifles is the film Legally Blonde (2001). The film is about a woman named Elle Woods who’s only goal in life is to marry her boyfriend Warner. But then he breaks up with her just when she thinks he is going to propose because he will look bad marrying a blonde. So then she sets out to win him back by becoming a lawyer and going to Harvard Law School. Nobody thought she could do it because
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Doris Kearns Goodwin is an American historian, political commentator, and biographer. Among Team of Rivals, she has also written about several other US Presidents. Some of these presidents include John F Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson to name a few. This New Yorker who now lives in Concord, attended Colby College in Maine, to later earn a PhD from Harvard University. A woman of many firsts, she earned the Lincoln Prize for her book Team of Rivals, she has even met Maine’s own Stephen King, and was
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Author Jayne Thompson led a keynote lecture in the Alumni Auditorium of Widener University. The keynote lecture focused on the life experiences and struggles of Jayne Thompson. The lecture began by Jayne Thompson speaking about her early childhood and some of the many challenges she faced while growing up. She discussed the poor economic conditions and the violence surrounding her hometown of Greensboro, North Carolina. She used illustrations to help the audience visual some of the events she witnessed
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The Susan Smith case caught national attention in the twentieth century as the entire nation followed a desperate mother’s loss for her abducted sons, to the unexpected reveal of the same mother as a merciless woman who drowned her own children. Years have past since the incident, and Smith remained incarcerated and in mourning for her irreversible actions and the forever loss of two innocent lives. In an attempt to understand Susan Smith’s abnormal dependence on other individuals and her deviant
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Trifles The sensitivity of feminism was very complicated in early 20th century, and Trifles by Susan Glaspell comes out not only for entertainment to this day but also it’s a message to the world about gender roles in expect actions. The story took place in the kitchen, which was the domain of Mrs. Wright and the women, whereas the men were not so familiar. The background of the story focuses on one side, the women, and it is known for inequality of gender through history. By using the bird cage
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Literary analysis on “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell Gender roles continue to change with time. It has only been a very short time that woman have broken through their defined roles and begin to be equal with men on a total basis. In Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles”, the story challenges the gender roles through the events that occur during the course of the play and through their own inner workings. The story is set in the Literary Renaissance –Drama period and leaves plenty of room for female characters
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from an accident. At the arrival of this news, the wife is in grief, but shortly afterwards, she is beyond jubilant that her husband passed away. In the short story, “Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell, two women find multiple pieces of evidence against a woman who killed her husband, which are viewed as trifles by the men. The men in “Jury of Her Peers” guffaw at the women several times throughout this story. Both authors of these two short stories use these literature works to enlighten their audience
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Symbolic Beyond Sexism “Well, women are used to worrying over trifles,” says Mr. Hale in Susan Glaspell’s play, “Trifles.” While demeaning women and their concerns is criticized as sexist in the twentyfirst century, mere decades ago people accepted sexism as common and even warranted. Since the maledominated society considered women’s tasks less important than men’s, men treated women with a lack of consideration. In the 20th century drama “Trifles,” Glaspell challenges the suppression in effect during her lifetime
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Shaurese Grate ENG 102 Professor Stone 17 September 2014 Trifles Trifles is a one act play in which the setting is on an old farm in a house in an unkempt kitchen. The plot basically revolves around a murder in which the wife is a suspect of killing her husband. In the beginning of the play, the County Attorney, the Sheriff, Mrs. Peters (who is the wife of the sheriff), and Mrs. Hale (who is the wife of the man that discovered the victim) were all in the home of the suspect and
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