“Trifles is a lousy mystery. All the action took place before the curtain went up. Almost in the beginning, on the third page, we find out ‘who done it.’
So there isn’t really much reason for us to sit through the rest of the play.” Discuss this view.
By the standard applied here, the play is “a lousy mystery”; but then, so are Hamlet and Crime and Punishment. Trifles does not, any more than they do, seek to be a whodunit, in which the paramount issue is to discover the identity of the killer. What is of importance here, of course, is what happens after that identity is established—namely, what Mrs. Wright’s motives and provocations were, what the two women decide is the proper way of handling the fact, and whether and how they will act to bring about what they see as the proper outcome. It is the answers to these questions, not “who done it,” that the play turns on, and it is the resolution of these matters that communicates Glaspell’s central themes.
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se usa en los servicios… _____________________.
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