Drama Short Critical Paper

Introduction

Glaspell queries and in so doing calls the reader or observer to also query, the comparative worth of men's and women's standpoint and work by setting up a tension-filled drama that clarify through the development of two separate narratives, one male and one female. As Holstein disagrees in her essay, though, the questioning Glaspell provokes is not unavoidably only about women's positions in the culture but somewhat how facts and perspective are esteemed or devalued within precise contexts. (Belasco & Johnson, 56-78) Susan Glaspell's play, Trifles, was written in 1916, and reveal the writer's concern with civilization-bound ideas of gender and sex position. As the title of the drma by Susan Glaspell, recommends, the concerns of women are over and over again measured to be mere trifles, insignificant issues that stand little or no significance to the true work of civilization, which, of course, is being approved out by men.

Critique

Holstein offers, and I agree that the traditional feminist readings trifle, as a limitation, as the socially constructed category of gender is. More questioning of gender roles, Glaspell seems to offer the reader the question of what to build even more complex, and that is how people understand, and they believe that they understand each other, and their stories. As Holstein signals, it is not necessarily that women approach and the final decision to protect Ms. Wright is simply inferred from the joint ... gender "(288). Holstein said that the men in the play advance the Wright house, where Mr. Wright has been found killed as an offence scene, while the women who go with them through the study approach the house as a house. Holstein admits that the men and the women have two extremely diverse motives for being there—the men, to complete their compulsion ...