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One main similarity between the two plays A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen, and Trifles, by Susan Glaspell, is that the women are treated like they are incompetent. In many cases, the men in both plays treat the women like prizes or pets. In A Doll’s House, Torvald calls Nora his singing bird, or he calls her his little squirrel. He rewards her as one would a house pet. In many ways, she is not respected as a human being. In Trifles, Mr. Wright does not even acknowledge his wife’s existence, except, most likely, fo