In Trifles, a story that was written in 1916, the men trust that they grant female personality by virtue of the ladies' connection to men instead of through their inherent qualities as females. The ladies' obligations were in the family and their suppositions weren't considered important ordinarily by men. The ladies have no first name and take their significant other's last names, in spite of being the protagonist of the story rather than the named male characters. Ladies in a domestic household circle were powerless against the fierceness of men. I know that this is a major theme because in the story Glaspell portrayed the men as if they imagined that ladies were worried about only "trivial" things like cooking, cleaning, babies, etc. The