"Trifles"

"Trifles"
By: Susan Glaspell

     The story starts out with the county attorney, the sheriff, the neighbor, and the wives walking in the house of Mr. and Mrs. Wright.  The scene of the kitchen is very gloomy and depressing.  As I read more I realized that this was a symbolism of what Mrs. Wright's life has become.  The neighbor begins to describe the murder of Mr. Wright but then is stopped by the county attorney.  This is when we learn more about Mrs. Wright and that she is being held for her husbands murder.  I think this is so we will sympathise with Mrs. Wright instead of her husband, who was murdered.

     Mrs. Hale has known Mrs. Wright since before she was married.  She was a happy woman who sang in the choir and now that she is married she is quiet and stays to herself.  She is a lonely woman who has never had any children and according to Mrs. Hale her husband was a very quiet man.

     The men were more worried about how the woman kept her house than getting evidence for the case.  The women begin to get some things for Mrs. Wright and find a broken birdcage.  Then they find her sewing kit and wonder if she was quilting or knotting the quilt and the men just thought this was funny.  Apparently during this time the things that women did was not important according to the men.  I think this is why they over looked the evidence of the murder because the women noticed that the last few stitches was done nervously.  Mrs. Hale began to fix this for her.  While looking in the basket they found a box that held the dead bird.  It looked like its neck had been wrung.  These women knew then why Mrs. Wright put a rope around her husband's neck.  He has sucked the life out of her and she had had it so she just chocked the life out of him. 

     As the men finished up there investigation finding nothing the women decided to get rid of the bird and tell them nothing.  At the end the attorney says well we found out that she was not quilting the quilt but what was it you call it he asked the women.  Mrs. Hale says "We call it- knot it, Mr Henderson" as she held her pocket with the bird in it.  I believe "the knot"  is a not guilty verdict because they are a jury of her peers.