Choose either Glaspell’s Trifles (1916) or Nottage’s POOF! (1993), and write an essay in which you
develop and support a claim about whether justice is served in the play. Make clear how you are defining
the word justice.
In Glaspell’s play Trifles, written in 1916, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters cover up evidence to
protect Minnie Wright. Write an essay in which you discuss the conflict between loyalty to
one’s sex vs. loyalty to the law.
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