- The two plays by Susan Glaspell and Lynn Nottage, “Trifles” (p. 740) and “POOF!” (p. 751) respectively,
focus on the issue of gender inequality in marriage. How do the two playwrights portray the female characters
in relation to their male counterparts? Considering the plot similarities, could “POOF!” be considered a
revisionist version (or a rewriting) of the 1916 “Trifles” from a contemporary (African-American) perspective?