Ines Indira P 102154229 Drama Both of those killing in short story Susan Glaspell is trifles.
. In the drama, began with the women (Mr. Wright) who only worry about the little things, or trifles. And Jhon do not realize that the women are actually solving as the murder by worrying, or trifling, over the small details. So, this case is little thing, but mean a lot. Think of the little things as pieces of a puzzle. When the small pieces come together you see the bigger picture. The first evidence is the fruit preserves. In lines 28-29, Mrs. Peters says, "She worried about that when it turned so cold. She said the fire'd go out and her jars would break." To which the Sheriff replies, "Well, can you beat the women! Held for murder and worrin' about her preserves." In line eighty-three Mr. Hale says, "Well, women are use to worrying over trifles." If Mrs. Wright had not been preoccupied, she could have started a fire to keep the preserves from freezing. Another example of trifling is noticing that Mrs. Wright did not awake while her husband was being strangled to death. Unless the Wrights slept in separate beds, Mrs. Wright should have felt the struggle between her husband and the murderer. Even though Mrs. Wright said she was a deep sleeper, she still should have heard the gasping for air and the struggle that was going on right next to her. Another thing that seemed very strange to everybody was that there was a gun in the house. Why not use the gun? Why use the rope? According to the drama, the author notes, "The strangling of Mr. Wright, which perplexes all when a gun was handy, is reminiscent of the strangling of that bird. " The third example of noticing the small things is the piecing of the quilt. The women were wondering if she was going to knot it or quilt it. The Sheriff over hears the conversation and says to the County Attorney in line one hundred and sixty-three, "They wonder if she was going to quilt it or just knot it!" In lines one hundred and sixty-six to sixtyseven Mrs. Hale says resentfully, "I don't know as there's anything so strange, our takin' up or time with the little things while we're waiting for them to get the evidence." The women take a closer look at the quilt in lines one hundred and seventy to seventy-two. Mrs. Hale points out that all the sewing was nice and neat until the point where the sewing was all messy. Mrs. Hale points out that the messy sewing is a sign of nervousness. Mrs. Peters disagrees and tries to defend Mrs. Wright by saying that when she gets tired her sewing becomes messy. The author of On Susan Glaspell's Trifles says, "The quilt is a symbol of Minnie's agitation-her anger. The men though, laugh at the women's wonderings about the quilt. To them it is of little importance ." The quilt showed a disturbance in Mrs. Wright's life. The knotting of the quilt seemed to be the same type of knot used to strangle Mr. Wright. The women noticed that trifle, but the men were too busy looking at the dead body and
making inferences about how Mr. Wright was killed that they overlooked the similar knotting of the quilt and of the rope around Mr. Wright's neck.
The next small thing the women pay attention to is the birdcage stuffed in a cupboard with no bird in it. Mrs. Hale asked if the Wrights had a cat. Mrs. Peters replied by saying that Mrs. Wright was superstitious about cats. The men come down the stairs and the county attorney asks, "Has the bird flown?" Mrs. Peters replies, "The cat got it." There is actually no cat, but the men do not know that and never question the existence of it At this point the women realize that Mrs. Wright killed her husband, but do not want to break their alliance and turn her in. Both Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Wright cannot believe what they have discovered. One of the town' s best ladies has killed her husband. Because the women look at all the tiny details, they are able to find things the men would never find. The women have solved the case. The men, still trying to figure out what happened, overlooked the small things that made the unsolved mystery solvable. All together, "Women outsmarted the law, men in authority, and even their own husbands because they took notice of the small detail that men cannot see"
