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1. Protagonist - The main character of a narrative
2. Exposition - Provides background info
3. Dialogue - Verbal exchange between characters
4. Informal Diction - Plain language of everyday use; simple words of the day
5. Literary Symbol - Object, character, setting that represents something else
6. Theme - Central meaning or dominant idea
7. One-act Play - A play that takes place in a single location and unfolds with continuous action
8. Reversal - The point in a story when the protagonist's fortunes turn in an unexpected direction
9. Stage Direction - A playwright's written instructions about how the actors are to move and behave in a play
10. Suspense - The anxious anticipation of a reader or an audience as to the outcome of a story
-In a career spanning nearly 50 years she wrote 14 plays, 9 novels, 43 short stories, several essays, a biography and a children's tale
-Most of her tales take place in midwestern towns
-She often wrote about multi-dimensional female characters
-Romance and romantic problems are present in nearly all her works
-Her works focus on optimism and sentimental characters
1. What is the temporal and physical setting of "Trifles"?
2. Why do you think Mrs. Peters changes her mind about telling the sheriff about all the things her and Mrs. Hale find?
3. What are the four "trifles" that the ladies find that the men don't that give a motive for murder?
4. How do you think gender roles affect the characters analysis of the house and its contents?
5. How do you think Mrs. Hale feels while gathering Mrs. Wright's things?
6. What is the significance of the bird being wrapped in silk?
7. Why do you think Mr. Wright was strangled instead of shot given there was a gun in the house?
8. What does Mrs. Hale mean when she says "I know how things can be - for women"?
9. Why do you think the ladies remained silent?
10. What would you have done?
-After returning to Provincetown Susan met and married writer Norman Matson in 1925
-They collaborated on several works but most notably a play called "The Comic Artist" in 1927
-In 1931 she and Matson divorced
-In 1928 she wrote a biography for her first husband called The Road to the Temple
-In 1945 Her last work was a novel called Judd Rankin's Daughter
-In 1948 she passed from pneumonia
E.J. O'Brien's yearly anthology, Best Short Stories
-1918 for "Jury of Her Peers"
-1920 for "Government Goat"
-1922 for "His Smile"
Literary Guild selection
-1940 novel The Morning is Near Us
Pulitzer Prize
-1931 for her play Alison's House
Paramount Pictures
-1928 novel Brook Evans made into a film
-Born in Iowa in 1882 to Alice Keating and Elmer S. Glaspell
-Received her PhD at Drake for her studies of literature, classics and the Bible
-Her first job was as a reporter for the Des Moines Daily News
-Having worked for 2 years she became an expert in political writing and had her own column, "The News Girl"
-The success of the column gave her confidence enough to move back to Davenport and work as a freelance writer
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Denise M. Harrell-Tribeck
1907 She met a married man George Cook and had an affair she went to Europe to end the affair
Upon her return to the States, Cook had divorced his wife and they were married in 1913
Together they wrote a screenplay Suppressed Desires a satire of Freudian ideas
Not having any success being produced in New York Gladspell and Cook along with some friends created the Provincetown Players
In March of 1922 after parting ways with the Provincetown Players, Cook and Glaspell moved to Delphi, Greece
In 1924 Cook died and was buried in Delphi
Meyer, Michael. The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2012. Print.
Theodore, Terry. "Alison's House." Literary Reference Center. N.p., 01 Sept. 2006. Web. 10 June 2013.
Wiedeman, Barbara. "Susan Glaspell." Literary Reference Center. N.p., 1 Apr. 2003. Web. 10 Jan. 2013.
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Provincetown Players Theater- Greenwich Village