“Trifles” by Susan Glaspell The play “Trifles” written by Susan Glaspell is a mysterious piece of writing that many may have enjoyed and left with some questions in their mind. When readers are left with questions, it shows that the audiences actually paid attention throughout the whole play. The play is about a mysterious crime investigation where a woman named Minnie Wright killed her husband, John Wright. As the investigation continues, one may see and understand how women were treated back in the days. What men think of the women and how men put themselves before women. The play opens in the kitchen with five characters, Sheriff Peters and his wife Mrs. Peters, Mr. Hale and Mrs. Hale, and the County Attorney Henderson. As the play begins, the males enters first and then the females. The men first warm their and then asks the women if they want to warm their hands as it was extremely cold outside, Mrs. Peters takes a step forward then says she is not cold. It seemed as she was afraid and she is a minority in the group of people. There many more evidences that shows how women were ignored even if they had the right idea of something. If women had to say something, the men would shut them off and not give them chance and not pay …show more content…
Hale and Mrs. Peters breaks off from the men to start their own investigation as they came to the conclusion that the men were looking at things from different perspective and weren’t looking at what they should’ve. Rather Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters tries to figure out the motive behind the murder of John Wright. As they continue with their own investigation of what the motive could be behind Mrs. Wright to murder her husband, they gathered many evidences which shows the reason for the murder and they were left stunned by those. The men were looking for scientific evidences, but he both ladies instead went to look for realistic evidences. Realistic evidences are definitely stronger then the scientific ones and both woman proved