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Question 3, (p. 1135): What are the “trifles” that the men ignore and the two women notice? Why do the men dismiss them, and why do the women see these things as significant clues? What is the thematic importance of these “trifles”? The narrator sets the scene; the cold kitchen of the farmhouse the day after John Wright was found murdered in his own bed with a rope around his neck. Nothing has been touched except a fire has been started on the stove to warm the place a bit for when the sheriff

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Laura Goode interviews five women that have been in a pageant show tell their personal anecdote and even gives her own experience and opinion. Marly Ramstad a designer talk’s about how she was only 14 when she did her first pageant she says at the time she was anorexic wanting to be perfect and pretty winning a pageant would confirm she was, she made a friend that had been doing pageants for a long time Marly won miss teen photographic and best personality it was lots of fun she tells Laura. Robbie

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a reporter commented specifically on her looks in that movie, stating that McCarthy, “Is only a good actress when she looks attractive, and that...she looked hideous in this movie.” McCarthy interpreted that comment to essentially mean, “How dare women not look beautiful, perfect, and attractive in a movie?” McCarthy has accepted herself and is successful all the same. In response to Rex Reed, a reviewer for the New York Observer who wrote, “McCarthy is a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short

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12-year-old girl called Paikea who faces hardships whilst discovering who she truly is among cultural misogyny in a Maori tribe situated in New Zealand. Misogyny is the dislike and adamant prejudice of women by men and is usually caused unconsciously by a trigger from an obstructive encounter with women in the past. This was an issue in the film as traditionally, the chief roles were ascended upon the males, and if anyone challenged this practice, they would be disobeying the ancestors, thus being dubbed

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Esperanza and the people she encounters during her time on Mango Street as she struggles to find herself as an individual/her identity. During the story, Esperanza discovers how her culture and social class affects her, how she relates to the roles of women in her community, and how to process her hopes and dreams as she matures. These pieces eventually come together in order to help Esperanza form her identity. The shabby old house on Mango Street is all that Esperanza and her family can afford at the

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office. In her one-month stay in New York, on one hand, Esther was cautious and conscientious to learn from an able and efficient female editor-Jay Cee, and she dreamt to follow Jay Cee’s successful step. On the other hand, she met various men and women in her colorful social life. These experiences reminded her of her life in women’s university, especially her relationship with her boyfriend- Buddy Willard. As the recollection often interweaved with reality, they brought Esther perplexity,

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debates the roles between men and women during a period where a debate was not widely conducted. Glaspell wrote Trifles in the early 1900s—a time when feminism was just getting started. In this play, Glaspell shows us her perspective on the roles of men and women and how she believes the situation would play out. Trifles seems like another murder mystery on the surface, but the play has a much more profound meaning behind it. Glaspell presents the idea that men and women analyze situations differently

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that women will no longer be in the background. By writing Trifles she gave women an outlook they have never received before. Trifles is a coming up story about women, in other words its about women and their rise to power. Glaspell embodies the women spirit by showing the power, conning, and intectellt of the women in her play. When people think of power the first thing that comes to mind is a man Women are shown to be weak, mindless and serving, but in Trifles Glaspell depicts women to have

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to a woman unless he is a person from her family. He must leave the carriage first and help the woman out.When at a public event, the man must go first to find the woman a seat. If there are elder, he has to take his hat off.Men are introduced to women.Men cannot smoke when ladies are around.Although, there are some actions that one must never make. Here are some examples (for men):Refer to another person by their first name in publicCurse while ladies are present (also smoke)Leave a lady you

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During the Roaring Twenties, women gained more rights, and this allowed them to roam out of society’s standard of a woman. This was a time where “women bobbed their hair, ventured out to speakeasies and dared to shorten their hemlines” (Jamie). These types of women were known as flappers. A studies professor, Rosanna Hertz, said that flappers were rebels, and fashion played an extensive role in allowing them to express their freedom. Women were supposed to wear clothes that covered their legs, “even

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