Introduction to Susan Glaspell

Instead of doing the act for the script, I chose to opt out and make a blog entry about Susan Glaspell. So here I am introducing the writer of the play Triffles for you. 

Susan Keating Glasspell was born in July 1, 1876 at Iowa and unfortunately died in July 27, 1948. She is a best selling author in her own time, and is most famous for writing the play Triffles, which we both read and act out in class. Glasspell has published 9 novels, 14 plays, and over 50 short stories throughout her life. 

Susan Glaspell never liked being controlled. Instead of a typical woman of her era, she decided to get her own degree in Drake University in Des Moines, graduating in June of 1899. The day she graduated, Glaspell immediately began working full time as a reporter covering murder cases, which is particularly rare as a woman. After marrying for the second time to George Cram Cook in 1914, Glaspell and her husband founded the Provincetown Players in Provincetown, Cape Cod; which is a little theather that was dedicated to producing innovative plays by American playwrights and opposing the artistic compromises required by commercially successful theatre (Ozieblo)

In the years between 1916 and 1922 Glaspell was highly innovative and productive as a playwright, which includes her writing her most acclaimed work Triffles in 1916. Triffles was viewed as a significant early feminist drama. In her play, Glaspell shows that women are smarter than the men in their lives give them credit for where she makes a very strong feminist statement that women are more than just housewives, or homemakers, and that they are more intelligent than they are perceived. The two main female character, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters is described to have the ability to sympathize with the wife, and understand her motives of kiling her husband, that leads them to the evidence against her, while the men are blinded by their cold, emotionless investigation of material facts. It demonstrates that men are not always the stronger or smarter of the sexes, but quite often just the opposite. For, as the men in this story mock the women, it is the women who solve the mystery of the husband's death. Through this, Susan Glaspell hints that women are indeed superior to men, in many ways. (Simkin)

Glaspell's strong freedom of expression and strong sense of delimitation creates a very strong notable plays such as Triffle which successfully embodies against feminism. After researching a lot about Glaspell, I find myself to look up to her as a strong woman. Even though gender stereotype is a controversial topic of her time, she is able to fearlessly create her own distinct voice against the issue. I strongly believe that she rightfully deserves her American Pulitzer Prize.