Susan Glaspell

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theater. From 1916-1922, Glaspell spent many summers producing plays by American playwrights, as well as writing, acting, and producing nine plays, including Trifles (Glaspell, 252.) Dissatisfied with the direction of Provincetown Players, Glaspell and Cook dismissed themselves from the group.
Cook died in 1924, but Glaspell continued to write and publish novels, such as Judd Rankin's Wife (1928). In 1930, Glaspell won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for Alison's Room, which was based on Emily Dickenson (Glaspell, 253.) Influenced by Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Glaspell advanced her personal ideas, as seen in Trifles, of "her unsparing, depiction of women's narrow, thwarted, isolated, and subjugated lives in rural, regional settings (Glaspell, 253.)
The play, Trifles, displayed a Modernistic, feministic theme, with emphasis on the barrenness and suffrage of women who tried to escape male dominance and identity. As exemplified in Trifles, Mr. Henderson, county ...

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I think maybe that's why she kept so much to herself. She didn't even belong to the Ladies Aid. I suppose she felt she couldn't do her part, and then you don't enjoy things when you feel shabby. She used to wear pretty clothes and be lively, when she was Minnie Foster, one of the town girls singing in the choir. But that -- oh, that was thirty years ago" (Glaspell, 257.) Glaspell wanted readers to gain a sense of female identity loss, which ultimately alienated and reconstructed Mrs. Wright's personality.
Set in an empty, dreary, and untidy farmhouse kitchen, the young county attorney, the local sheriff and his wife, and the farming neighbor and his wife, gathered around a stovetop ...

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