The Value of the Unimportant

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Sarah Abdelhak
Professor Priscilla Dedeyn
Lit 100
29 March 2005
<Tab/> The Value of the Unimportant
<Tab/>Little things matter. Something of little importance or value is exactly how women are viewed in the early twentieth century, which is when the play took place. Susan Glaspell, the author of 'Trifles' uses the character John Wright, a farmer, to express the views of this time period by using him to dominate his wife Mrs. Wright, formally known as Minnie Foster. He dominated her by making her lonely and not showing any lo…