Trifles By Susan Glaspell Essay

In the play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell, the characters are at the house of the Wrights, investigating the murder of Mr. Wright. His wife Mrs. Wright says she slept through the whole thing. The men are looking for her motive to have killed him since they already have her in custody. The women are gathering things to take to her in jail. The men are walking through and criticizing her kitchen and housekeeping, the ladies did not like that one bit. They know something had to be wrong for her kitchen and sewing to look like it does. When Mrs. Peters is first introduced to the readers she is the perfect “Sheriffs Wife”. She sides with the law and tries to tell Mrs. Hale what they should do. Mrs. Hale on the other hand does not mind throwing a little attitude towards the men. In the beginning Mrs. Peters makes excuses for the men criticizing Mrs. Wright’s kitchen. “Mrs. Hale- I’d hate to have men coming into my kitchen snooping around and criticizing […]
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Peters and Mrs. Hale are essentially partners in crime. They decided that even though Mrs. Peters is “Married to the law” to withhold information that would implicate Mrs. Wright of her husband’s murder. She can relate to Mrs. Wrights anger over the dead bird because she had a kitten that was killed by a boy in her neighborhood with a hatchet. She stated that she wanted to hurt the boy who killed her kitten so she felt that same rage that Mrs. Wright probably felt. She can also relate to the loneliness that they assume Mrs. Wright feels, she lost a child at the age of two years old and she states she knows what stillness is. Mrs. Wright had nothing but that little bird to occupy her time to her it was probably like a child. Despite being married to the law she was the first to try to hide the bird’s body by trying to stick the box in her pocket. Mrs. Hale saw that but did not care to touch the dead bird’s body in order to protect her friend who she knew lived in an unhappy