The Significance of Trifles Men are inclined to overlook trifles and look for the big picture of situations. Susan Glaspell illustrates this scheme in her play, Trifles, and her short story, “Story of an Hour.” The play is based on the short story. While trying to solve a murder case of a...

America is known as the “land of the free” and the “home of the brave”. However, some people who disagree, view America as the “land of the slave” and the “home of the weak”. In Richard Wright’s “A Separate Road” and Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” the ...