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While he lay asleep in the middle of the night, someone strung a rope around his neck. And that someone might have been his wife, the quiet and forlorn Minnie Wright. Written in 1916, Susan Glaspellâs one-act play Trifles is loosely based on true events. As a young reporter, Glaspell covered a murder case in a small town in Iowa. Years later, she crafted a short play inspired by her experiences and observations.
As the title of the play by Susan Glaspell, âTriflesâ (click here for a full plot summary) suggests, the concerns of women are often considered to be mere trifles, unimportant issues that bear little or no importance to the true work of society, which, of course, is being carried out by men.arly in her essay, Holstein writes that Glaspellâs play Trifles is deceptive in that it seems âsimple, almost inconsequentialâ (282). On the surface, it seems that Trifles is really only about the competing roles and perspectives of women and men.