Trifles Response!

Trifles a one act play (isn't it funny that saying an one act is weird but a one act isn't?) by Susan Glaspell is quite interesting.

First of all, when I hear the word trifles, I automatically think of "you're triflin'...good for nothin' type-a-brother"..but, that aside....

The use of the dashes in between certain words --- like -- this broke up the dialogue and made reading it a lot more choppy. Obviously it was the playwright's choice in doing so, adding local color through the speech of the characters. I also think that if one takes every single stage direction literally, their characters will partially already be developed- meaning the actors would be making less discoveries. Why I chose to include that in my blog that is just a bunch of word vomit as I look back over Trifles is beyond me...but it popped into my head so I included it. Going off of what Jenny said in class, I like the double meaning of the last line... "knot it" literally meaning "knot" and "not"....it was not a detail that I originally picked up on, but now I won't forget to be more aware of it. In line 400, it mentions colors, and from years of education it is ingrained into my head that colors have connotation and symbolism. I believe that the mentioning of Minnie Foster wearing white is representative of her protecting her "innocence"...like a facade. I also think that the canary is representative of new beginnings (birds taking flight...new journeys) and with its death that the new journey is not going to be easy, or that with its death, specific problems will cease to exist.

Once again....sorry for the word vomit...these will become way more organized throughout the semester! :)