"Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" by Adrienne Rich tells of the repressed Aunt Jennifer who produces scenes representing freedom and fearlessness, but in reality is trapped and powerless. Only through her artistic expression is she able to find a temporary release from her entrapment. In "Trifles", Minnie Wright allows herself to be subjugated for thirty years before she frees her whole self, through drastic means that leads to a more permanent solution, murdering her husband. From a …showed first 75 words of 1291 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1291 total…live in the isolation her husband has forced on her for the many years she has been subjected to it. Minnie finally rejects her husband's absolute power over her, which is another example, although extreme, of a woman rejecting the role of the suppressed female. Bressler, Charles E. Literary Criticism. (3rd ed.) Upper Saddle River New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc. 2003 Schwiebert, John E. Reading and Writing from Literature. (2nd ed.) Boston New York: Houghton Mifflin. 2001