SOURCE: "Women's Work—Trifles? The Skill and Insights of Playwright Susan Glaspell," in International Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2, March/April 1982, pp. 172-84.
In the following, Smith examines Glaspell's presentation of women in Trifles and she analyzes the play as "a possible fictional representation of a [spouse battering. "]
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