Mitchell Rose
Cross Cultural Drama
11/7/15
Ms.Whipple

In both Trifles and A Doll House both all the men in the story feel like they dominate the girls and make the women do things they don't want to do, The women do things like want to kill themselves or leave the family because they don't love the men anymore. In both A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, and Trifles, by Susan Glaspell, the focus is on women as they exist within the confines of a man-dominated society, and how they respond to the problems that are presented in their marriages.Both stories have a common theme of women who have been controlled by the husband and how the women have no say in the social class. The women in the plays are very similar but they both take different steps to show what they are going to do. And in both plays, there are women that understand that they are getting controlled which they had not understood …show more content…
Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters who come to Mrs. Wright's house to gather some things for her while in jail, notice how casually the men make fun of the hard work a woman does to keep a household running. They refer to these chores as "trifles," though they reap the rewards of this work. They make fun of the quilt Mrs. Wright has been sewing. They are boorish and insensitive.

When the women find the dead bird waiting to be buried, they realize how terrible Mrs. Wright's existence must have been. After witnessing the "neanderthal-like" behavior of the men gathering evidence against Mrs. Wright, they decide to champion Mrs. Wright in small ways. They hide the dead bird, probably the catalyst that brought about Mrs. Wright's "psychotic break," so there is no new evidence to convict her, and collect things to bring her some little comfort in