EXPLORATIONS OF THE TEXT
2. What clues lead the women to conclude that Minnie Wright killed her husband?
There
were many clues that lead the women to conclude that Minnie Wright killed her
husband. The clues are the quilt which was nervously sewn, the empty birdcage
and the dead bird. These clues indicate that something has happened to Mrs
Wright and she felt uneasy with something. Mrs Peter and Mrs Hale also talks
about how cheerful Mrs Wright was before she got married. It shows Mrs Wright
was not happy with her married life.
3. How do the men differ from the women? from each
other?
The men in Trifles are considered as having the typical men’s attitude where they always look down on women and overlooked trifle or trivial things. They make fun of women characters in the story as they were talking about trivial things which the men thought were not important and did not relate to the investigation.
The men in Trifles are considered as having the typical men’s attitude where they always look down on women and overlooked trifle or trivial things. They make fun of women characters in the story as they were talking about trivial things which the men thought were not important and did not relate to the investigation.
Women,
however, are different from men where they are very sensitive towards surroundings and
even sensitive towards trivial things. The evidence in the story could support
my statement where the women were actually solving the mystery and doing the
investigation unexpectedly by discovered all the clues hidden which considered
as trifles by men characters.
Men
were mostly possessed the same attitudes or characters. They did not differ
much from each other except for their physical appearance and age. The men in
the story share the same thought of looking down on women and making fun of
trivial stuffs. They were also egoist as they were denying women’s ability.
4. What do the men discover? Why do they conclude "Nothing here but kitchen things"?
The men looking around the house for evidence and motif of the murder but they did not discover anything because of their egoist attitude that made them overlooked the trivial things which turned out to be the evidence found by women instead of men. They conclude “Nothing here but kitchen things” and overlook them because the underestimate women and thought that the kitchen was meant for women only. They conclude that nothing could come out from searching for evidence in the kitchen. The different of sexes was clearly shown in the story by Susan Glaspell where men underestimated women’s ability in the society.