TriflesI ​​would like to make three main points. Major #1: Since this is the first work we have read, the direction really caught my attention and I tended to take it very seriously when determining the meaning of the work. The most obvious direction, discussed in Parrish's essay, is that neither Mr. nor Mrs. Wright ever appears in the play, and Glaspell was the first to use this type of direction (which was later recognized as exclusively hers). important examples of the play's direction (unspoken lines) are:( ... she is now disturbed and looks around fearfully as she enters.)(She stops, her face shrinks.) In a way of getting back to things family members.) Glaspell uses this direction several times. (Silence; then, as if struck by a happy and relieved thought of returning to everyday things.) (Mrs. Hale glances surreptitiously at Mrs. Peters.) (Backs off.) This is an emotional direction, not physical. Glasspell's decision to present "Trifles" as a play instead of its original short story form (titled: "A Jury of Her Peers) gives the reader the opportunity to "see" the action better than usual, and then get a clearer understanding of the author's meaning. Major #2: What is the meaning of "preserve?" I see the literal meaning, but what does Glaspell say about a woman's act of preserving things? comedy keeps coming back to this jar of preserves (example: if the jar gets too cold, it breaks; the preserves make a sticky mess; they don't want Minnie to know that the jars have broken and are not preserved). 3: Does anyone know about quilting? I'm looking for more specific information about knotting and quilting. I think Glaspell is using this craft (and it's a way of expression like writing and painting) very subtly to get his message across, but not. I have enough information to see it, although I understand the meaning of the knot and knot around Mr. Wright's neck that killed him. Can anyone help me? Parrish writes in her essay that Glaspell wrote and produced many plays and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1931. It is interesting and meaningful to read the theater because it finds yet another way for women to find and express their voices. Parrish states that Glaspell's writings focus on women's "desire for equality and recognition in a "man's world.