Irony In The Play Trifles Hale

There is irony in the title of the play. Trifles would mean things without importance or overlooked, even not needed; and yet the wife, the kitchen, the dead bird are all the most important elements of the drama. The kitchen is where the most important lines take place, the wife overlooked takes control, and the quilt and the dead bird tell the real story of the Wright home. There is irony in the focus on the activity of her hands "pleating" her apron, this is mentioned several times by Lewis Hale, who is a neighboring farmer. These same hands are the ones that put the knotted rope around John Wright's neck. There also is a focus on the work of her hands, when the women find the quilt she was working on; and the preserves of fruit. The apron,