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So, Mr. Wright busted the cage door and strangled the bird. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters decided not tell the men about their discovery. The play ends with the characters exiting the kitchen and the women announcing that they have determined Mrs. Wright’s quilt making style. She “knots it” instead of “quilts it”. I think with women were referring to the fact that Mrs. Wright killed her husband, knotting the rope around his neck. But saying it in such a way that the men will continue thinking that they pay attention to ‘trifle’ matters. In trifles, the title is ironic as the reader sees what is silly and "trifle" to men, is the key to solving the murder. The title, the characters, the role of women and they all work together to paint not only a picture of Minnie’s life with John but by adding the lives of all women who live abuse under male domination. In Trifles, the male characters are regarded as intellectually superior to their wives, who are treated as rather childish for their concern in domestic details. But, in fact, the author makes a feminist glory as she describes her female characters with such a witty way to secretly win over male

In “Trifles”, a division between the two sexes is quickly established as the men enter the house and huddle by the stove while the women remain still by the door. As the men start their detective work the women wander around the house to gather some of Mrs. Wright’s belongings. While searching for her belongings, the women discover an empty birdcage and find a dead bird in a “pretty box” (Glaspell, 956) inside of Mrs. Wright's sewing basket. Mrs. Hale jumps at the sight of the bird’s neck and Mrs. Peters points out how “somebody-wrung-its-neck” (Glaspell, 957) similar to the way Mr. Wright was found earlier. Mrs. Wright's murder of her husband can be seen as an act of feminine revolt against the male-dominated society. Another example of women defying against patriarchy is of Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters hiding the evidence that can prove Mrs. Wright to be guilty of her husband’s murder. Before their departure from the Wright’s house, as the men are returning, the sheriff suggests that the county attorney take a look through the items Mrs. Peters had collected for Mrs. Wright. However, he decides that anything collected by the women cannot have much significance and overlooks it. His assumption that the women would have came forward if they saw any possible evidence costs him. The sheriff’s belief is that women derive their identity solely from their relationships with men; the dominant gender.

The reactions in Trifles reveal to the reader how heavily defined gender roles were in the early twentieth century. The two genders quickly form separate bonds with one another in this play. The men of this time dominate every aspect of this story. They make sarcastic jokes at the women when they start to show concern about things that appeared out of the norm in Mrs. Wright’s house. The first thing they noticed is the broken can goods when the Sheriff says, “Well, you can beat the women! Held for murder and worryin’ about her preserves” (Glaspell 1245). This tone of voice reveals how the men did not take the women seriously. They laugh at the women’s idea of trifles but as Phyllis writes, it is “their attentiveness to the "trifles" in her life, the kitchen things considered insignificant by the men, the two women piece together, like patches in a quilt, the

I believe Susan Glaspell’s title Trifles refers to the scant attention or importance placed on the thoughts of the female characters, by the male characters, as well as to the inadequate deliberation with which the men attend to the trifles that are actually of import. Not only does Mr. Hale plainly state, “Well, women are used to worrying over trifles” (1283) as the men belittle the thoughtfulness and consideration of Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale in regards to Mrs. Wright worrying about her stored jars, but Sheriff Peters clearly sees just “kitchen things” (1283), while the women begin to see missing pieces of the murder motive in the everyday items. Similarly, Mr. Henderson sees “a nice mess” (1283) in the kitchen, while the women begin to recognize

The play “Trifles,” written by Susan Glaspell in 1916, is about a woman that is being charged with the murder of her husband. During the play, George Henderson (County Attorney) and Henry Peters (Sheriff) search Mr. Wright’s house for any evidence that will uphold in court against Mrs. Wright. The irony is that Mrs. Peters (the Sheriffs wife) and Mrs. Hale (Mrs. Wright’s neighbor) are the ones that discover the evidence to put Mrs. Wright in jail. The evidence that the ladies find are also major items of symbolism throughout the story.

Trifles The play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell is a one-act play that revolves around the investigation of the murder of Mr. Wright by an unknown person. The investigation is carried out by Mr. Hale who is the county attorney, Mr. Peters who is the sheriff, Mrs. Peters, and Mrs. Hale. Mrs. Wright claims that she was asleep when unknown assailant entered the house and stabs her husband to death. From the critical view of this play, one can see that as the male characters carry out the formal investigation, the female characters carry out an unofficial investigation of their own.

One of the meaning of “Trifles” is gender roles. Throughout the play, the women in the story are talked down upon. This is not a surprise because of the period that this play was written in. During this time, women were seen to be inferior to men in all aspects and were not treated with respect. The court attorney patronizes the women in the story by saying things like, “And yet, for all their

The men in Trifles are portrayed in the play as aggressive and extremely egocentric. The women are more observant and careful and do not speak to the men in a rude way. In the play, when Mrs. Peters is worried about Mrs. Wright’s fruit the sheriff stated, “Well, can you beat the women! Held for murder and worryin’ about her preserves” (1158). The sheriff does not understand the time it takes to prepare fruits and making sure the fruit do not freeze because he does not have to tend to a woman’s role as a wife. The men did not take the women seriously in the play because they made a lot of jokes out of things they would say. For example, When the women were talking about the quilt the sheriff said, “They wonder if she was going to quilt it or just knot it!” (1160). This showed that they really did not care for what the women had to say about things, and the men laughing made it seem as if they did not know what they were

And instead, the men look upstairs in the bedroom and outside in the barn for clues. The title "Trifles" is a form of verbal irony by both being an understatement or sarcasm and that the very important roles and work these women play in their home. As Hale says sarcastically in the play, "Well, women are used to worrying over trifles. “ Also is that if Hale, the Attorney, and the Sheriff would have understood women's work, then the dead canary and the condition of the stitching, if they might have found enough clues and a motive then they would have been able to convict Mrs. Wright, but because the women had realize that Mrs. Wright's victimization by her husband and the sexist attitudes of their own husbands, they decide to keep quiet and protect Mrs. Wright from going to a prison because they themselves have gone through the same thing as Mrs. Wright and having been living in a domestic prison for so long. Additionally, there are many events that transpired to cause the women in the play to suppress the evidence in the play.

In the play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell the character of the play are trying to investigate a crime that has been committed in Mr. Wrights home. All the men in the play have a job in the public and the women were do domestic work, as the genre role implies that women should be house wives, while the men are in charge of the important public work, such as in this case being a sheriff, and a county attorney. Throughout the investigating the women found many evidence leading to the crime, but the men laugh at the women saying that everything they worried about was insignificant, without realizing that they are finding evidence that lead to the guilt of Mrs. Wrights. Therefore, Susan Glaspell chooses to use the title “Trifles” in her play to portray irony of the seemingly insignificant things found by the women lead to the evidence of the crime. However, the general roles come into play it prevents the men to take the women serious, because the women are supposed to do domestic work.

The play having the name Trifles is ironic in that the men assume that the women are concerned about petty womanish things that would never be of assistance to the investigation, when in fact the womanish things turn out to be the evidence that would be necessary to prosecute Mrs. Wright. The men search for what they suspect to cause the motives in similar situations with the typical mindset of a man. While the men are wasting their time thinking like typical men of the time, they ignore the obvious clues within Mrs. Wright’s daily activities, such as her sewing, the dirty table, and looking through the cabinets where they would have found the broken canary cage. As the men believe that the “women are used to worrying over trifles” it appears that these trifles actually lead to the women finding the

In the play Trifles, by Susan Glaspell, the plot develops through action. As soon as the play begins readers and viewers are introduced to the county attorney, the sheriff, and Mr. Hale. Due to the fact that these three men discuss the case and death of Mr. Wright quite a bit, the audience is made to believe that they are the main characters of the play. However; the true protagonists of the play are revealed as soon as the men departure from the kitchen and leave the characters Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hales to themselves. When left alone in the kitchen, the two women find bread that had not been baked, pans thrown under the sink, and a towel that is half clean and half messy. The women also find a quilt that Mrs. Wright was working on, one

Trifle is a word which is used to describe something with little importance or value. According to Suzy Clarkson Holstein, “SUSAN CLASPELL’S ‘TRIFLES’ is a deceptive play: deceptive because, like its title, it seems simple, almost inconsequential. Yet the play represents a profound conflict between two models of perception and behavior” (Holstein 282). In the play “Trifles”, Mrs. Wright is in the situation of being accused of murdering her husband. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters come upon a dead bird during the investigation and realize Mrs. Wright may be guilty. In the play Mrs. Hale says, “I wonder how it would seem never to have had any children around. No, Wright wouldn’t like the bird- a thing that sang. She used to sing. He killed that too” (1.122). Mrs. Hale decides to hide the bird to protect Mrs. Wright, realizing the reason why she may have killed him. Mrs. Hale may have been motivated to commit the crime of hiding evidence because of the way the men belittled the women. In the play the Sheriff says, “They wonder if she was going to quilt it or just knot it” (1.73). As stated upon

"Trifles" is a short story that Susan Glaspell wrote about between men and women. It 's specifically targeting the way men attitudes were towards women. "Trifles" talks about a murder that is unsolved, a country woman suspected of killing her husband in an isolated farm. Men in this short story worry more about looking for big evidence and judging about Mrs. Wright 's messy kitchen instead of looking in her stuff for evidence. The men think that in the kitchen there is nothing important. Instead they go to the barn and to the bedroom to find evidence. Meanwhile the women find a dead bird with a broken neck that could mean why she killed Mr. Wright. At the end the women decide to hide the evidence. That is because they think she had her own reasons to kill him because Mr. Wright could have killed the bird and that it was important to Mrs. Wright. In "Trifles" there is a conflict between the masculine attitudes towards women.

In the play Trifles by Susan Glaspell, the men in the play are completely out of touch with the women. This may be perhaps the single greatest important theme of the play. The gender differences set the stage for the utmost vital event of the story, the murder. The men of the story are mainly oblivious to the steps the women undergo in the story. Understandably the women solve the murder before the men even get close. The men acted just as Mr. Wright in the play, they were dismissive and condescending. While the men of the play rage and trample around the farmhouse searching for evidence to the murder, the women discover additional clues. These clues allow the women to solve the murder. The men decided to focus more on the “trifles” of a farmer’s wife—her baking, cleaning and sewing instead of truly being rational. Because the men practically ignore the women’s world and how they reason