Post your main response and responses to two classmates’ posts, collectively amounting to 400 words minimum (at least 150 for your main post and at least 125 for each reply to classmates) due by Friday — Be sure that your main response answers the prompt thoroughly and that your responses to classmates directly address the ideas discussed in their posts in depth. Please, put as much effort into your replies to classmates as you do your response to the prompt. Your replies are what make this a discussion. Thank you.

Susan Glaspell’s Trifles contains several important symbols, among them the title itself, the domestic setting, the frigid cold, the quilt, and, perhaps most important, the birdcage and dead songbird. How do these symbols propel the plot and convey deeper levels of meaning concerning the characters and themes? Interpret the symbolism and explain your interpretation of the play.