Trifles

"Trifles" is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell. This is the story of the murder investigation of John Wright. The male characters are doing the official investigation while the female characters are doing their own unofficial investigation. The men are investigating the murder scene and asking questions to the neighbor who went to the house that day. The wife was the one who found him and when Mr. Hanes asked him about her husband she laughed and said he had died of a rope around his neck. The women are looking for things around the house and the men think those things are not important. The men say that "women are used to worrying over trifles". Trifle is a thing of little value or importance. Mrs. Wright was the one who murdered her husband but they never suspect her. We see how the men think a woman is incapable of murdering a man just because she is a woman. The men just see women as housekeepers and they think they only exist to be their wives. This explains how in that time women were presented like less than men. We still sometimes see this in the world, some men think they're much more than any woman.