ANT 2301 Study Guide - True Crime
4 Nov 2014
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Clue 4: the canary: singing- connection between mrs. wright and the canary, death of the canary signifies . the silence of mrs. wright. Canary: death of mr. wright is melodramatic, glaspell based trifles on a true crime story, about a woman who bludgeoned her husband to death, glaspell changed the manner of the story. Facts about trifles: written in 1916, women couldn"t vote, only men served on juries, glaspell wrote a short story on this same subject called a jury of her peers . Significance of last line: mrs. hale: we call it-knot it, mr. henderson. Knot it minnie is circle it: subtle rebellion against a system that is holding you down, play on words, not it . Difference between men and women"s work as suggested in the play- schoolteacher, fireman,
