TRIFLES_Susan Glaspell

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.

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.