Trifles is a murder-inspired one-act play that author Susan Glaspell covered as a reporter from 1899 to 1901, but didn't publish until 1916. The time difference is significant, as in this period the fight to obtain the right to vote was advanced. For years the feminist movement had experienced many failures. The show and its themes show the changing attitude towards women's injustices. Trifles exposes how American women in the early 20th century, especially the "invisible" woman Mrs. Wright, were oppressed politically, socially, and psychologically by men, despite several political advances. The political atmosphere for women in the late 1800s and early 1900s was fierce and in a constant state of battle. Groups and events such as the National Woman Suffrage Association and the National Women's Rights Convention were created. Feminist ideals began to gather momentum and support. Married women gained many rights during the 19th century, as evidenced by the passing of numerous laws in their favor. Unfortunately, social norms have remained somewhat the same. The 18th century jurist William Blackstone explained the early thinking on a woman's status: "By marriage, a woman's very being or legal existence is suspended, or at least incorporated or consolidated into that of her husband, under whose wing, protection or cover she performs it all” (Offen 1). Women during these early years of the United States lost their identity and became part of the husband This school of thought slowly changed over the next two centuries as Minnie Wright found herself married. socially but not necessarily legally is still under the full control of her husband. In this way, patriarchal ideology continues...... half of the document ......d Its hardships: a century of struggle with. psychoanalysis. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. Print.Glaspell, Susan “Trifles.” Twelve Classic Comedies in One Act Ed: Mary Carolyn Waldrep: Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 2010. Marano, Hara Estroff Today July 1, 2003. GoogleArticle Search Web. November 12, 2013. Noe, Marsha “Reconfiguring the Subject/Recovering Realism: Susan Glaspell's UnseenWoman 4.2 (Spring 1995): 36-54 in Twentieth-. Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau Vol. 175. Detroit: Gale, 2006. Literature Resource Center Web, November 4, 2013. Offen, “A Brief History of Marriage.” International Women's Museum. 09 November 2013. Tyson, Lois Critical Theory Today: An Easy-to-Use Guide New York: Routledge, 2006.