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Gender In Susan Glaspell's Trifles

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In society, humankind establishes a guideline and role for each gender to follow. Men’s value is at a much greater level than anyone else during this time period. The role of the male gender was to take control and financially support their family. Men support each other, rarely input from women was valuable enough to change the reputation of a man, “Men's hands aren't always as clean as they might be.” (Glaspell 3). As displayed in Trifles, men support each other so it was an obvious decision to discard any possibility that Mr. Wright is the cause of his own death because that would display weakness. Mrs. Hale makes the statement about men’s hands being dirty in any attempt to defend Mrs. Wright and hope to motivate the sheriff to think of

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