Women In Susan Glaspell's Trifles

In the short essay play, Trifles, it shows how women pay attention to the very small things that can lead to bigger things. These are the Trifles in the play. So, why are women so attracted to the little details? Glaspell uses the women in the play to attract to small detail that will help in solving the big crime. This helps them see the bigger picture as to what is going on. It is very obvious in Trifles that the men only think women worry about little things. They do not comprehend that by trifling over the small things, the women are actually solving the murder.
There is great attention to detail in the fruit preserves. Lines twenty-seven and twenty-eight discuss this example. Mrs. Peters says, “She worried about that when it turned so cold. She said the fire’d go out and her jars would break.” And the sheriff replied, “Well, can you beat the women! Held for murder and worrin’ about her preserves.” Mr. Hale then says, “Well, women are used to worrying over trifles.” So this example proves that if Mrs. Wright had not been inattentive, she would have started a fire to
Wright, which perplexes all when a gun was handy, is reminiscent of the strangling of that bird.” A third example of trifiling is the piecing of the quilt. The women in the play wonder if she was going to knot or quilt it. When the sheriff overhears that conversation he turns to the county attorney and says, “They wonder if she was going to quilt it or knot it!” Mrs. Hale says bitterly, “I don’t know as there’s anything so strange, our takin’ up our time with little things while we’re waiting for them to get the evidence. I don’t see as it’s anything to laugh about.” The women examining another block, Mrs. Hale points out where the thread was nicely sewed and then it turns messy. Mrs. Hale asks what she was so nervous about. Quickly to defend that Mrs. Peters acclaims that when she is tired her sewing gets messy