Mary Wilkins Freeman, "The Revolt of Mother"
"Adoniram was like a fortress whose walls had no active resistance, and went down the instant the right besieging tools were used." (p.40)
I really liked this passage for a number of different reasons. First, in the end "mother" got her wish, and moved "father" into doing what she wanted. The imagery in this quote, "right besieging tools," fit in very well with mother's tactics at getting father to build the house he promised her. The use of the word besieged making you think of ancient times when an army would attack their enemy and besiege them, cutting off their food and water supply, until they gave in and surrendered. The passage functions into the text as a whole in the way mother finally gets father to surrender and she is no longer not in the know.
Susan Glaspell, "Trifles"
"Mrs. Hale: [Her hand against her pocket.] We call it--knot it, Mr. Henderson." (p.406)
I particularly like this quote because of the irony in it. Mrs. Hale is referring to what Mrs. Wright was doing to the blanket, and yet at the same time she was letting slip the significance of her "knotting" and not quilting. She was practicing knotting on the blanket for when she tied the knot of the rope around her husbands throat. The passage fits in with the rest of the text because it is where the women silently reveal the murderer and their intelligence in the face of the ignorant men who thought the women themselves were the ignorant ones.
Carolyn Forsche, "As Children Together"
"You were ashamed of that house, its round tins of surplus flour, chipped beef and white beans..."
I like this quote because it is humorous to me how Victoria is so ashamed of her poor family and run down house, when she's like this perfect person that the narrator looks up to and thinks is so beautiful. It's like her one ugly flaw that keeps her from being so perfect. It's also kind of ironic how in the end of the poem she lives in a trailer in a similar fashion to how she grew up. She tried to grow up fast and move away from her childhood and become something, but in the end she's nothing more then a poor married woman living in a trailer looking back on life with what ifs. That is also how it fits into the passage as a whole. The whole poem's about this girl who is envied by the narrator and how she longs to be someone and move out of her small town and small life, and yet in the end she's just like her parents did, right back where she started.
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I really liked how you explained the meaning of when she said "knot it." To be honest, when I first read the play at home I did not catch on to this fact. I did not realize it until we were having a class discussion and I read over the play more. I really liked how you talked about the men as being ignorant because I agree with that. Also, I think that can relate to other stories we have read where the men do not take in consideration what the women want, need or know.
I liked how you reacted to "As Children Together" because I had an opposite initial reaction. I used the way you looked at the last passge of the author saying that she heard she was living in a trailor as a bad thing, like Victoria didn't accoplish her dreams and the author did.
For Trifles, I do agree that the women knew at the end who murder the huisband. i felt like they did a good job of out smarting the men because the simple clues they found led them to the evidence.
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