Sweat: Sweet Revenge

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of oppression can affect someone mentally and physically. When speaking to the female characters in Trifles, the author shows that the men make an assumption that the women get their identity from them and talk down to them. For example, Henderson tells Mrs. Peters that she is married to the sheriff, therefore, she is married to the law. Mrs. Peters, over the course of the play, discovers a different aspect of her identity that relates more closely to her experience as a woman than to her marriage. Mrs. Hale surmised that women “all go through the same things. It's all just a different kind of the same thing” (Glaspell 919). Mrs. Hale could understand that Minnie Wright’s murder of her husband was the ultimate rejection of her husband’s identity. Mrs. Hale recalls the memory of the person Minnie used to be before she married. The Minnie Foster she recalls used to wear pretty clothes and was lively. The examples of oppression used in Trifles illustrate Minnie Wright’s motives ...

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girl-friend. He is Delia’s oppressor and degrades how she looks, “look at yuh stringey ole neck! Yo’ rawbony laigs an’ arms” (Hurston 182). Her hard work is not valued by her husband. In this story, the town people realize that there is abuse and infidelity in Delia’s marriage. They talk about her as she rides by and it is apparent that the people of the town are disgusted with Sykes. For example, one man says, “there oughter be a law about him” (Hurston 179), in other words, there should be a law against what Sykes is doing to Delia. Although many recognize the abuse, the town people do not intervene. They don’t meddle while a woman is being abused, which contributes to a man dying. ...

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