TRIFFLES by SUSAN GLASPELL

Exploration of the text

1) Characterize Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peter at the beginning of the play. How do they differ?

Mrs. Hale is a wife of the farmer, Mr.Hale. She also was a friend to Minnie Foster@ Mrs. Wright. While Mrs. Peteris the wife to the new comer sheriff,Mr.Henry Peter. There are several differences between Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peter. Mrs.Peter is a women who very loyal towards her husband just follow what he said since she married with the law. She also allow herself to be looked down by the men. At the first of this story, she does not want to tolerate about Mrs.Wright case due to the law,but after Mrs.Hale tell her about Minnie's experience, she changed her mind and keep silent. Mrs, Hale is the farmer's wife which braver than Mrs Peter and does not totally follow her husband instruction. She stands with her instinct to keep silent about the evidence on Minnie's action of killed her husband. She also does not want to be remain looking down by the men.


2) What clues lead the women to conclude that Minnie Wright killed her husband?

The women found the body of the dead canary with its neck has been wrung which is the same way as Mr. Wright has been killed and they make the conclusion that she killed her husband use the same way he killed her bird.Besides, they also found the ruined preserves fruit in the kitchen and unfinished quilt.


3) How do the men differ from the women? From each other?
Men always think about the serious matter and used to ignore the small things. While women will keep thinking and wondering about something even though it is only a common thing. For example in this play, the men said "Nothing here but kitchen things" which mean they never thought that it could be the clues for the murder case. But, women feel curious what is going to be happen by saw the way Mrs. Wright knitting the quilt.


4) What do the men discover? Why do the conclude  " Nothing here but kitchen things'? What do the women discover?

The men in this play only discover that Minnie Foster has killed her husband without they notice about the way and the reason why she did  the murder. The conclude is " Nothing here but kitchen things'' because the men cannot find any evidence through the kitchen things which for them is meaningless. While for the women, they found a few evidences in the kitchen. For instance, ruined fruit preserves and the bread that left out of the box.