Sometimes, It Takes a Woman to Solve a Murder

Sometimes, It Takes a Woman to Solve a Murder

Trifles, something of a little importance or value Susan Glaspell's "trifles", A society that feels like men are against women, and the women is the something of little importance or value, but perhaps it may the other way around. Two women and three men entering a house on a winter day is how we start off. We find out that Mr. Wright is dead with two men being the sheriff and the county attorney, while the third person finds about Mr. Wrights death. The two women are the wives of the witness and the sheriff. There has been a crime we learn from the men talking. Mrs. Wright has died while he slept by being hung. The prime suspect is Mr. Wright's wife. No proof has been obtain, just a mere assumption that she did.

While in the house the county attorney states, "Minnie Wright, was not much of a housekeeper."(Glaspell 253) The attitude that he displayed towards the two women was frivolous and disdainful. The two women, figured out that Minnie wright did commit the crime, where they supposed to not be the brains throughout the play, but the reason why Minnie wright did do the crime as well. The two men nothing, but making lots of assumptions while trying to look for a cause and investigating the scene of the crime, are supposed to be the superior, but find out nothing. The two women draws a logic conclusion on the reason why Minnie wright killed her husband while he slept by strangling him was because, Minnie wright had a song bird that was rung by its neck is what Mr. Wright did to it. One of the two women Mrs. Hale says to Mrs. Peters the second women, "I wish you'd seen Minnie foster when she wore a white dress with blue ribbons and she stood up there in the choir and sand."(Glaspell 258) Turning Mr. Wrights wife from a charming and beautiful women into an empty shell of a women she once was, that was in reference.

Not informing the men what the two women had discovered were their decisions. The secrets were kept to themselves. Having Mrs. Wright suffering was enough. One of the three men the county attorney stated "Ah, loyal to your sex, I see."9 (Glaspell 261) Referring to the fact that she was not a good housekeeper and did not concede it, and not making the house a cheerful one was all her fault or she was the cause of it and the fact that Mrs. Wright had no house home-making instincts. I got to the conclusion that the men in this play are the value or little of importance in this. They were the trifles. In just a short time the two women displayed amazing work to resolve and to answer all the questions the crime had to offer and why the crime was carried out.

Maybe just maybe everyone should be more concern on how everyone contributes, than to quickly judge other people based on their sex and how they look and most important of all what makes them different from us. Maybe