Don`t understand ?

Trifles

by Susan Keating Glaspell

2007

Susan Glaspell 's play Trifles explores male-female relationships through the murder investigation of the character of Mr . Wright . It also talks about the stereotypes that women faced . The play takes place in Wright 's country farmhouse as the men of the play , the county attorney the sheriff , and Mr . Hale , search for evidence as to the identity and most importantly , the motive of the murderer . The attorney , with the intensions of proving that Mrs . Wright choked the husband to death , was interviewing Mr . Hale

on what he saw when he came in to the house . The women , on the other hand , were just there to get some clothing for the wife who was in jail for suspected murder of her husband . However , the clues which would lead them to the answer are never found by the men Instead it is their female counterparts who discover the evidence needed , but they choose not to tell the men what they found since the man were degrading them the whole time . After searching the house several times , tow of the men choose to stop and they leave while the attorney stays behind to find any sort of clue that could convict Mrs Wright of the murder . The women withhold all the evidence they find therefore getting back at them men for all the stereotypical and degrading comments they said . Thus allowing the attorney to attempt to find his own evidence and ending the play . Gaspell 's play represents the misjudgment and stereotypes the women faced and how they dealt with those issues

The men 's one-sided view of the women prevents them from finding the key evidence that they need . The male investigators need to find , as Mrs . Peters puts it 'a motive something to show anger or--sudden feeling (357 . Yet the men never see the uneven sewing on a quilt Minnie Wright was working on before the murder . The quilt is a symbol of Minnie 's agitation--her anger . The men , though , laugh at the women 's wonderings about the quilt . To them it is of little importance Likewise , the bird and its cage are easily dismissed . In fact , the men just as easily believe a lie about this bird and cage . When the cage is noticed , its broken door overlooked , the county attorney asks "Has the bird flown " Mrs . Peters replies that the 'cat got it (360 . There is actually no such cat , but the men do not know that and never question the existence of it . The bird , however , is vital to the case . Mr . Wright killed the bird , Minnie 's bird , which may have provoked her to then kill him . In addition , the strangling of Mr . Wright , a form of murder which perplexes all when a gun was handy , is reminiscent of the strangling of that bird . It is another answer to the men 's questions , but an answer they never find . The women , on the other hand , take note of all they see...