Susan Glaspell’s Trifles is a good play because it unravels the different motives for murder throughout the play. Unlike most murder mysteries, Trifles is a play where the reader knows the murderer early on. Some readers may say that this makes the play bad. However, a murder mystery does not have to always have the reader in suspense to find out who the culprit was, but it can also have the reader in suspense …showed first 75 words of 841 total…

…showed last 75 words of 841 total…continues and her life is revealed, the reader begins to understand and even sympathize with Mrs. Wright. Most murder mysteries do not have an element of emotion added into the plot, but this play has the suspense element and an aspect of emotion incorporated in. So in the end, Trifles is a good play. The play may not keep the reader in suspense to find out who did it, but rather why she did it.