Socratic Seminar Questions

1) Throughout the one act play, Trifles, the Sheriff and his friend disregard all the little details and move fast through the house where the murder took place. The women look for all the little details. Why do you think woman notice details and men overlook a lot of specifics?

2) Who murdered the husband in the play? 

3) Can a man and a woman be friends without sex or at least sexual tension?

4) Harry sleeps with his first date after he gets divorce yet he doesn’t like her. He also constantly thinks about how long he has to lay with a woman after. Do men have a more casual approach to sex than woman?

5) In Friedberg’s blog post, that was supposed to be a joke, was actually very controversial. It had to do with the rules in a gang. Do you think people in a group adapt to the rules of the group just to be accepted just as in a gang?

6) Throughout Story of an X the society hates on the “x” child. Does society affect which groups one chooses to be in?

7) Sally’s friend Marie is in a relationship with a married man who still loves his wife. Marie continually is told that he will never leave his wife yet can’t seem to accept it and he continues to see her. Are woman more susceptible to believe lies they are told because they want them to be true?

8) Could a real X survive in real life? Do you think parents in society such as ours would not let an “x” child go to school here?

9) What have you enjoyed the most: Trifles, the X child, When Harry Met Sally, or the poem, Girl? Which showed gender relations the best?