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Considering the discussion that Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters had about the bird found in the little box and wrapped in silk, and considering the significance that it may have had for Mrs. Wright, it can be say that the bird was a symbol of its owner, Mrs. Wright, of her own spirit and that she identified strongly with it. Since the bird, which was a canary, liked to sing, as when Mrs. Wright belonged to the choir of her church, she becomes identified with his song (the song of the canary can symbolize the desire that Mrs. Wright had for freedom and happiness). By identifying with its singing, it seems that its owner was not completely happy with her husband. Regarding the status of the birdcage, it can come to the conclusion that it was Mr. Wright who forced the birdcage and killed the canary, choking his neck because he didn’t like the songbird. At the time in which Mr. Wright killed the bird, he also kills the desire for freedom and happiness of his wife and her own spirit. Although Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters were not sure of who killed the bird, they were almost sure that was Mr. Wright.
Now, in the drama is given the event that Mr. Wright was found dead upstairs and no one knew who could have killed him. It is believed that was Mrs. Wright who killed him, so it can be conclude that she killed him the same way he killed her bird. It can be said that she killed him because he gave her a miserable life, a life she never wanted. By killing the bird, being perhaps the only thing with which Mrs. Wright was identified, takes her to choke on the same way he did with the canary, wringing his neck and strangling it with a rope. It can be said also that Mrs. Wright killed her husband because she could not stand his attitude, because with the the bird he took her life, her spirit, her great desire for freedom and happiness. Maybe she was happy with her canary and it gave her the happiness that her husband never gave her. That’s why she, probably, killed her husband over the bird.
The woman, noticing the empty birdcage and finding that the door of the cage was broken, made the people concern and made them question themselves about how rough or how patient was Mrs. Wright. That little detail could be the source and the beginning point of what really happen with the death of her husband, Mr. Wright.
After she notice the empty birdcage and the door broken she discovered the dead bird wrapped up in a piece of fine silk, now we know something happened and that the death of her husband for sure has to do something with this dead bird. Even thou the bird lived in the same house they both lived in, probably the real owner was Mr. Wright, the one who cared about it and gave him food, meanwhile, Mrs. Wright maybe did not liked the bird because he was always making annoying noises until someday, the day “she killed” Mr. Wright she thought she had enough of this damn bird and killed him, when Mr. Wright noticed his wife was crazy they started to discuss and yell at each other and the fight began.
While the fight continued Mr. Wright noticed that she was really crazy and that he needed to do something about it, but before he could think about what to do, she said to herself that killing the bird gave her peace for a moment and then she asked herself if killing her husband could gave her even more peace so while Mr. Wright leaved she run from his back and choke him to death. And that is really the end of the case…
In the play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell some officers are investigating a crime scene where a woman, Mrs. Wright, has apparently murdered her husband. While the officers were investigating they brought their wives to collect some clothing for her.
Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, who visit the Wright home notice many different things that the men don’t even look at among these they find an empty birdcage. The author clearly uses symbolism to emphasize the meaning of the play; an example would be the dead canary and birdcage. At first the women had only discovered a birdcage with a broken door and no bird. They later find the bird in Mrs. Wright’s sewing box, with its neck broken.
“There’s something wrapped up in this piece of silk.
Why, this isn’t her scissors.
Oh, Mrs. Peters — its —
It’s the bird.”
Caged birds are often used to symbolize restriction. For example, Maya Angelou used a caged bird to criticize racial oppression in her poem; I know why the caged bird sings. This is even a popular theme in songs, for example Alicia keys song titled, “Caged bird” also shows how a caged bird symbolize lack of liberty. In this play, Mrs. Wright was a caged bird herself, she even liked to sing. When the women found the bird, they realized that Mrs. Wright killed her husband because he prevented her from communicating with others and from being free. Mr. Wright’s action of strangling the bird symbolized how he strangled his wife and how he oppressed her.
“She was kind of like a bird herself-real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and-fluttery,” (Glaspell).
In this play we can see the difference between the men and the woman in this society. We can see that men think that woman are not serious and that they are not capable of doing things serious. For example, when Mrs. Hales and Mrs. Peters found the dead bird in the house, they decided they would not tell their husbands. This because they thought that it was in their hands to defend woman’s life, they identified themselves with Mrs. Wrights because they saw that she didn’t had a good life, they saw that she didn’t enjoyed so much being with her husband. So finally, they saw that her life was not as they expected to be, as their own life’s, so they decided to forgive her, although they knew she was the one that killed her husband they thought she had a valid reason to kill him. To conclude, based on what Mrs., Hales found and Mrs. Peters found, we can say that Mr. Wright was killed by his wife, because he killed her bird that was the thing that she most loved and enjoyed hearing. We could also say that Mrs. Wright lost her love to her husband because she got to the point of killing him and she killed him the same way hi killed her bird as vengeance. Finally we see that the men’s were not capable of finding the motive of Mrs. Wright action because they cannot see how woman’s react and feel, that they are capable of doing anything for the thing they love.
People who spend their lives forbidding themselves from achieving anything they desire must feel as if they are behind bars. A situation like this can be encounter among couples. Neither one of the two persons in a relationship can forbid one another of anything. Married couples should always solve their problems throughout communication. No conflict is resolved by disrespecting each other. Maybe, this is the case of the murder among the Wright family household within the story titled “Trifles”. At least that’s what more or less the women who somehow investigated the crime scene suspect. Probably, this house was a prison of which Mrs. Wright was eager to escape.
“Trifles” is a story of a crime that hasn’t been able to be completely solved. The County Attorney neither the Sheriff nor Hale are sure if Mrs. Wright is responsible for ending with the life of her husband, John Wright. The women in this story are a side, leaving the men alone so that they can do their job. My thoughts are that these men think that the women are not capable of finding important evidence to help solve the crime committed. Later on, these women unintentionally found a bird cage with its door quite damaged. Before encountering the cage, one of the women stated that Mrs. Wright possessed the qualities of a bird by being pretty but also a bit timidly like. This same woman also expressed that Mr. Wright was a hard man. I’m not sure what she meant by that, but I interpret it as if he was a kind of man that thought that everything had to be done as he demanded. Following, the women found the bird with its neck practically slaughtered. Perhaps, Mrs. Wright was planning a way to escaping the agony she was living alongside her husband and decided to sacrifice the bird creating a simulation on how to get rid of him. The evidence that the men found was not a least bit enough to find Mrs. Wright guilty of the crime. But, putting together all the suspicions analyzed and found by the women makes practically clear sense that she had reason enough for committing such an afoul thing. Nobody has the right to finish with someone’s life. However, the person is going to reach a point in which he or she would be so sick and tired of suffering a continuous mistreatment that the person will probably become capable of doing whatever it takes to putting an end to it.
Applauding violence is something that is not in me. Men have to realize that we women don’t belong to them. Killing the person who hurt us doesn’t solve anything either. Women also have to learn how to handle this type of situation. Both genders should treat each other as equals. It’s true that when getting married both of them have to leave something behind of when each other was single, but new and better things would be added to the relationship to fill the space that those things left. Violence and disrespect in a relationship should be replaced by communication and trust. This way the happy moments will be so many that it will overshadow the not so happy ones.
Trifles Solve The Case
In the play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell the action take place in the Wright’s home, where the sheriff and the attorney are investigating the murder of Mr. Wright. The play is divided in two, one of the parts is what men saw in the house and the other part is what women saw in the house. Men were in the house to investigate the murder, but women were to pick Mrs. Wright’s clothes because she was in jail, because of her husband death. Trifles means things that are not important, men did not took attention at all at the kitchen and some things that were in the house but women were different and maybe in all that trifles the found the key to solve the mystery.
In society most of people think that there a big difference between males and women duties at home. In this play is easy to see this. Men were in charge of the case as women were just taking food and clothes to Mrs. Wright. We can call this chauvinism, because, women just had to do the easy work and men had to resolve the case because they were the ones that were intellectually capable to do it. Is this a reality? Definitely no, Glaspell present in her play that the women were capable as men to resolve the case, but they prefer had women in a cage were women could do only the work in their homes. Sometimes, the most important things in life come from the simplest. Women as simple as men saw them in the play, they found some clues that men did not saw. There are those times in life that people are blind and they just see what they want to see, sometimes, they just do not want to see the potential that are in others just because they are scared that the other could be better that him or her.
Women just using their common sense without thinking that they were better that those men found out that the reason why Mrs. Wright killed her husband. She decided to kill him because he killed her bird. Men in the play preferred to just look in the easy places; they did not went deeper, that was the biggest mistake that they could commit. This not had to be necessary about genders this also could be about people who think that the other people around them are trifles; they do not know that those around him or her could be the ones who are going to help him or her to find the right clue that solve the situation in their lives.
Why was a woman the best criminal?
It all begins with the word “trifles”:
-an article or thing of very little value (dictionary.com)
-a matter, affair, or circumstance of trivial importance or significance (dictionary.com)
This word defines how men saw most of the clues about the murder, just as insignificant things which would not help them solve the crime at all. And since the only law enforcers were men… This would make a woman the perfect criminal.
A woman works with stuff that for most men looked insignificant, making it an easy task to hide clues inside “trifles” like sewing baskets, bird cages, and such. Now in this crime there also were 2 women who were able to see these trifles as something else; they could actually see the clues inside them. This sexism is the secret for a woman to become a really dangerous creature, a creature that can kill in the night while hiding the evidence in places men would never care to look. This is what happened in the play “trifles”, while this woman was accused of committing murder, the men could not find any clues on how or why would she do it, while the 2 women understood the whole scene. Here I can observe a critic of the sexism in that age. Men always took for granted what women did and never gave them much importance. Women cooked, sewed, washed clothes, cleaned, took care of the foods, children and much more, while men just worked to get money (not that this is an easy task either). The thing is, I believe both of them did a hard work during the day and both of them should receive credit for being able to maintain the house. But it was not that way… while men always worked outside the house, women worked inside and then who takes the credit for being the hard workers? The men… Now, back to the story: While observing the characters, I could notice that even though the women were helping the men, the women were not considered any real help. So here is the irony, while the women solved the crime, the men were still puzzled about what happened. If the men would actually take their time to ask the women what they found, they probably would have been able to understand the scene. But since they believe that women give importance to too many “trifles”, they were never able to understand. And this is how a woman became one of the best criminals: by simply hiding things inside “trifles”.
Trifles are in all places
Trifles is a play where have occured an assesination, the author is Susan Glaspel. In this play there two diferent perspecives the one from the men and the woman. This all play is based on the murder of Mr. Wright in his house and his wife is the number one suspicious and she’s on jail for that. At her stay on prision the sheriff go to the assesination place to see some deatails so he can know something. The author use this word “trifles” because it mean something that has no value or insignificant so it is perfect for a case of assasination, more in this play because in that time was like the woman has to do all in the house so she knew almost everything in the house and then the man was the one who was in charge to find food to eat. Being Mrs Wright in prision has more luck if a men search the house because they would not understand, but if is other women searching she is in great problem. Also in the story, mention another two women that go to the house while their are the sheriff and other helping him. Those two women start to make some question of how she can comited murder, with what? One of the topic of this play is the dominant man wich believe he can do everything and the women could never do such a task like they do. The real thing is yes they can and more, the men in that time was in constant fight of who was the best, thats why they were like that, so ”trifles”. The women go to a room and see a empty cage, they satarting to asking why its empty when they notice a death bird, both keep serching and get the conclusion and tell it to the sheriff and the case could complete. The moral of the play is never judge someone, because that person can do amazing things and in life there ”trifles” and if you spend to much time following it may lost all your life, its better to detect the trifles and avoid them.
The play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell is based on true events. Glaspell was a reporter who one day covered a case of an assassination on a small town. She later wrote a play based in the event she covered. In the play, the word “trifles” is used as something insignificant or without any value. The story also has two perspectives; the Mrs. Wright’s one and the one of the Sheriff. According to Mrs. Wright she was a asleep when someone strange strangled her husband, story that neither Mrs. Hale nor the Sheriff believed. According to Mrs. Hale she stopped visiting the Wright’s household because of its atmosphere, and Mrs. Wright strange behaves. Mrs. Hale feels guilty to not visit more often the Wright’s house to help Mrs. Wright in her problems. The first one who discovered the death of Mr. Wright besides his wife was Mr. Hale, and he affirms that day he visited them Minnie was strange behaving. She was detained by the police until they figure out who killed Mr. Wright. While the investigation proceeds, one day Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters (wife of the sheriff) found a box with a dead canary in; apparently the bird’s neck was broken. They knew that Mr. Wright dislike the bird’s song so he possibly kill it, so Mrs. Hale put it on her pocket and did not tell any men about what they have had found in the room. The story’s trifle is the bird found in the box. At the end, the men still looking for forensic evidence and leaving behind the bleakness of Mrs. Wright emotional life.
Inferring about the play’s theme we can said that is men do no appreciate women. In this story Mrs. Wright do all the things in the house and Mr. Wright did never attended her. She always was depressed and the things she do to make him happy he didn’t thanked her.
Perhaps
The work of Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles” sets out a case that could be or is seen in modern society. The plot tells us about the mysterious murder of Mr. Wright, who according to the police and the “clues” was Mrs. Wright who killed him. But the strangest thing in this case it was the fact of having found a Canary dead in a sewing box delicately wrapped in a silk cloth. Who killed Mr. Wright? Will have it been Mrs. Wright? Why bother to wrap the bird in silk and let Mr. Wright like if he was nothing? The truth is that we may never the truth of what happened. There are many assumptions and little evidence. But perhaps the version more successful is of Mrs. Wright to kill her husband because he killed the Canary.
The Canary was perhaps the only company of Mrs. Wright; perhaps it was her only friend, which accompanied her in her endless days of loneliness and bitterness. Perhaps Mr. Wright hated the bird, because his wife treated the bird with more kindness than she ever treated him. Perhaps Mr. Wright, tired of hears the claims of his unhappy wife and as a method of revenge towards his wife, killed the only thing that his wife really loved and wanted. Perhaps Mr. Wright forced the entrance of the cage to kill the bird; perhaps Mrs. Wright attempted to prevent it. Perhaps Mrs. Wright seeing her only company lying on the cold ground felt the anger running through her veins, growing in her hands and crashing on the neck of the tyrant that kills all and nothing leaves. Perhaps Mrs. Wright went downstairs to mourn the death, not of her husband, but of the delicate soul which represented the illusion of a better tomorrow and the hope of eternal happiness. Perhaps Mrs. Wright wanted to give a meaningful tribute to her loyal friend, and taking her sewing box and getting the finest piece of silk she found, carefully wrapped the rigid body of her beloved Canary. Perhaps Mrs. Wright saw for first time her prayers answered.
Everything is summarized in this phrase “perhaps”. We will never know what happened exactly at the Wright House; perhaps the story is completely different from the assumptions. But in the end everything stayed in a cold and eternal “perhaps”.
Susan Glaspell’s one-act play, Trifles, is based on actual events that occurred in Iowa at the turn of the century. From 1899-1901 Glaspell worked as a reporter for the Des Moines News, where she covered the murder trial of a farmer’s wife, Margaret Hossack, in Indianola, Iowa. Hossack was accused of killing her husband, John, by striking him twice in the head with an ax while he slept. Trifles is a murder mystery that explores gender relationships, power between the sexes, and the nature of truth. In the play, the farmer and his wife never actually appear; instead, the story focuses on the prosecutor, George Henderson, who has been called in to investigate the murder; Henry Peters, the local sheriff; Lewis Hale, a neighboring farmer who discovered Wright’s body; and Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale, wives to the two local men. While the men bluster and tramp around the farmhouse searching for clues, the women discover bits of evidence in the ‘‘trifles’’ of a farmer’s wife—her baking, cleaning and sewing. Because the men virtually ignore the women’s world, they remain blind to the truth before their eyes. The men within this play betray a sense of self-importance. They present themselves as tough, serious-minded detectives, when in truth they are not nearly as observant as the female characters. Their pompous attitude causes the women to feel defensive and form ranks. Not only do Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters bond, but they choose to hide evidence as an act of compassion for Mrs. Wright. Stealing the box with the dead bird is an act of loyalty to their gender and an act of defiance against a callous patriarchal society. This play make me appreciated the way the society have grow in terms of Genders equal rights. Obviously this right of female are not equal in all cultures but at least in America women right are mostly equal to the Man rights.
Although the two questions are related and involve explaining the same thing due to the stereotype of the women and how men perceive them, I chose to write about question two because I can relate to the situation, as well as many woman can, including Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters.
Mrs. Wright is an old woman with an aggressive husband. She used to be a gay, lively girl, before marrying John Wright. Her husband was so difficult to live with, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters even pity her for having to live with him. She has no children and, other than her quilting, nobody to keep her company.
The bird symbolized companionship and comfort. When her husband killed the poor canary, Mrs. Wright felt lonely and decided to take revenge. In fact, Mrs. Wright strangles her husband in the same manner the bird is found strangled. Although her actions may not seem justified to the men, the women can relate to the situation and understand the need for revenge. This is why posterior to finding the birdcage and the dead canary, Mrs. Peters admits that when she was a girl, a boy killed her kitten and she had wanted to hurt him.
At the end of the play, the two women decide to hide the birdcage, the dead bird in a box, and the rest of the evidence because, although they understand Mrs. Wright, they are sure the men wont. This way, the jury will prove sympathetic to Mrs. Wright since no clear evidence was found.
“Trifles” by Susan Glaspell, is a short play in which a woman is accused of murdering her husband. The story unfolds as the women are investigation various aspects in the house that lead that Mrs. Wright killed her husband. The women, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale, are invited to see the house from a feminine point of view.
Mrs. Wright is told to be a cheerful person in her youth who loved to sing and wore colorful clothes. Mrs. Hale noticed that Mrs. Wright had changed after the wedding with John Wright. John was a man who said to be a hard man. The women talk about how miserable Mrs. Wright was, being trapped in the house all day, working in the farm and attending her husband.
After all the clues that are given throughout the short play, is clearly that Mrs. Wright killed her husband. I believe that the purpose she killed him, was because she felt trapped throughout the years and could not take it anymore. One thing that I noticed was that she was said to love singing and everything changed when she got married. She had bought a canary, who also likes to sing, and maybe John did not like the bird in the house because it may have been a distraction for Mrs. Wright from her daily chores. Mr. Wright could have killed the bird in an outburst of rage, by turning the canary’s head. Mrs. Wright got mad but had to suck up her feelings because in the period women had to obey their husbands.
Mrs. Wright clearly cared about this bird, because she wrapped it very carefully placing it inside a beautiful box. Maybe she really did kill Mr. Wright because she was seeking vengeance for all the bad moments she had passed with him, for having to sacrifice things she loved and specially the killing of her beloved treasure the little canary, her closest friend.
During the last week of April I went to a conference that explained how our ego makes us react in different ways according to our gender. Ego is a Latin word that means “I”. Is a sense that makes us feel important for ourselves. Studies have proved that it is things different from a female’s point of view rather than a male’s point of view. The male sees only the surface of things, they are more logical and sensorial females instead have intuition and the management of feelings, they observe everything deeply. In earlier times women were expected to the simple housekeeping shores when her husband was working. But what they didn’t understand was that the housekeeping not only consisted of cleaning and cooking, it also required taking care of the children, getting them ready for school, having dinner ready when her husband arrived keeping the house clean etc.
In the play written by Susan Glaspell, Mr. Wright is found dead and Mrs. Wright is considered suspicious. Various crime investigators arrive to the house, female and male, in order to have different perspectives and try to conclude the motive of the crime. At first the two men go around the house and they dont find any clues. They only see that Mrs. Wright didn’t do her work because the house was all messy and the dishes were not done. When the female investigators go around the house they start finding various clues that the men didn’t observed. Mrs. Wright was a happy woman that loved to sing and when she got married with Mr. Wright, a serious man, everything changed for her. The female investigators, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale, they found a bird cage and a dead canary wrapped with a piece of silk in a box. When Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale try to connect all their clues they could assume that the canary represented Mrs. Wright, her freedom and her passion for singing but since Mr. Wright didn’t like the singing maybe he could have killed the bird for it being so annoying and Mrs. Wright, been identified with the canary, she might have killed Mr. Wright for making her a prisoner in her own house and not allowing her to do what she liked, to sing. Since the women who found the clues knew that the men wouldn’t understand the possible cause of the murder, they preferred to hide all the clues and make them believe that they didn’t find anything. Women at last they could feel what it could mean to live as prisoner to their husband.
Female ego understanding things deeply and following their emotions rather than male’s ego that only sees what’s on the surface, what they believe is more logical and sensorial.
The play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell’s occurred in Iowa at the turn of the century, it is based in real events. The setting of the story is in a kitchen of an abandoned rural farmhouse. This play is based on the murder John Wright, apparently strangled to death while he slept. His wife was found guilty of the murder and was taken to custody. Mr. Wright doesn’t seem to care for his wife. He never spent time with her. There is an obvious social and psychological boundary between men and women.
When Mrs. Peter and Mrs. Hale entered the house they carefully search for clues. After the search they found an empty birdcage, with no bird. The bird used to make her company because she had no kids. When Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peter found the birdcage the women hide it because they know that their husbands (men) would never understand Mrs. Wight. After that, we know that the reason Mrs. Wright killed her husband was because he strangle the bird and the bird was her best company and her friend because John was never there for her and he doesn’t seem that he cares. When she saw the bird dead and strangled she felt angry and furious and want to kill her husband the same way he killed the bird. She wants to strangle him.
The play “Triffles” is narrated supposedly folowing real events in Iowa, a case about the murder of a man named Mr. Wright, and the suspected culprit is his wife. In the investigation, two wifes, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peter enter the house to do some snooping arround id say. They find diferent clues as to what had happened, an empty bird cagen a dead bird wrapped in silk, the door to the room was broken. Folowing these clues and the fact that she acted completely normal with the murder of her husband its clear to infer that she was the feind responsable for it. The events could have happened as follows:
Mr. Wright is doing whatever a cranky man of that time does, walking arround the house, having a cigar or what not and he listens to the sound of the singing bird in his and his wife’s room so he goes to finish off his annoying singing once and for all. His wife is nowhere to be found and the door is lockes, he then procedes to break the door open and the birdcage aswell, takes the birds and strangles it to death, then he tosses it back in the cage. When his wife returns she finds the broken door and the dead bird. weepingly she covers him in a silk cloth and places him away, after that she begins to plot, finds away to get her husband in the room and the rest is history.
My space is My space
Trifles could be defined as something that is not important and cannot be considered in evaluations. We can take this play as a lesson where the women are treated just like the men’s treat the clues in the investigation, as a trifle. They considered that women where not smart enough for those type of situations, which in this case they where wrong. In the crime scene they didn’t even notice the clues because it was not their area. The crime scene took place at the kitchen, which most of the man are not very skillful at. When a woman came and look over the place she could quickly notice some clues that could give the case a resolution. The reason of her quick evaluation is named Gendered Spaces. In a normal house there are some places that we can say that has a gender because is normally only used by a female or male not both. We can consider the kitchen to be a female zone therefore they could understand or more or less. An example of a male zone could be the garage, living room or garden. The gendered space could affect the men that where investigating the scene because that where not their area. We can say that Glaspell put a stop to a trifle treat to woman by to parts. In one part by the woman resolving the case instead of a man. And the other part is Mrs. Wright killing her husband for the murdering her bird. Both women did a great job on breaking the chain that men had in that time.
posted on Friday May/18/2012 at 7:30pm
The Thought of a Woman May be Helpful Most of the Time
The play Trifles is based on true events documented by Susan Glaspell which collects the murder of a man, putting has first suspect his own wife. The name of the murdered man was Mr. Wright, who lived on a rural place alone with her wife, who is recognized has a solitary and less sociable that others. The crime scene was on an untidy kitchen, and to solve it the town sheriff bring two woman for the case comprehension, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale. These two wives were taken to the crime scene to think as women, and the reasons of a supposed murder. Looking around they realized many details which authorities ignored, like an empty bird cage that clearly belongs to Mr. Wright wife. Connecting many clues the found that Mr. Wright strangled the bird to death, the bird being recognized as a part of her wife, they conclude the reasons of the murder. Everyone has a limit and at the moment Mr. Wright kill the bird he broke it, detonating an angry woman with vengeance on her blood. If it wasn’t for Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale that noticed the trifles, the clarification of the case would be still undefined
Trifles, is based on actual events that occurred in Iowa at the turn of the century. From 1899-1901 Glaspell worked as a reporter for the Des Moines News, where she covered the murder trial of a farmer’s wife, Margaret Hossack, in Indianola, Iowa. Hossack was accused of killing her husband, John, by striking him twice in the head with an ax while he slept. Initially it was assumed that burglars had murdered the farmer, but a subsequent sheriff’s investigation turned up evidence suggesting Mrs. Hossack was unhappy in her marriage. Ultimately, she was charged with and found guilty of the crime and sentenced to life in prison. Trifles is a murder mystery that explores gender relationships, power between the sexes, and the nature of truth. In the play, the farmer and his wife never actually appear; instead, the story focuses on the prosecutor, George Henderson, who has been called in to investigate the murder; Henry Peters, the local sheriff; Lewis Hale, a neighboring farmer who discovered Wright’s body; and Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale, wives to the two local men. While the men bluster and tramp around the farmhouse searching for clues, the women discover bits of evidence in the ‘‘trifles’’ of a farmer’s wife—her baking, cleaning and sewing. Because the men virtually ignore the women’s world, they remain blind to the truth before their eyes.