Susan Glaspell was born in 1882 in Davenport, Iowa. She graduated from Drake University and worked as a journalist on the staff of the Des Moines Daily News. When her stories began appearing in magazines such as Harper's and The Ladies' Home Journal, she gave up the newspaper business. In 1915, Glaspell met George Cook, a talented stage director. Together they founded the Provincetown Players on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The Players were a remarkable gathering of actors, …showed first 75 words of 988 total…

…showed last 75 words of 988 total…plot of Trifles; we know that they did not agree with it. The point of this tale is that while the men, smart as they were, were looking at the situation for an exterior perspective, the women were looking on the inside, at the small things, the trifles to find the real evidence and motive. BIBLIOGRAPHY Glaspell, Susan. Trifles. Discovering Literature Compact Edition. Guth, Hans, and Gabriele Rico, eds. Upper Saddle River [NJ]: Prentice Hall, 2000.