In the play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell, a man named Hale had found Mr. Wright lying in bed, dead while his wife, Mrs. Wright, sat in the living room as calm as could be. Hale asks Mrs. Wright “Has anybody been notified?” she responds with “No.” then he asks her “Who did this Mrs. Wright?” and she responds very monotone “I don’t know”(970). Because Mrs. Wright does not seem to care that her husband is dead, Hale believes Mrs. Wright is a prime suspect. Later, Hale, Mrs. Hale, Mrs. Peters, the Sheriff and the County Attorney discover a dead bird in Mrs. Wright’s sewing box. This bird appears to have been strangled, the same way Mr. Wright had died. The definition of a trifle is something of little value or importance. Glaspell seems to be