Trifles Questions

I love this play.  The women figure out the crime while the men pretend they know how to investigate.  This reminds me of "Murder, She Wrote." 

The coolest is that people who were in jail at that time got to have some comforts of home brought to them in their cells. 

Anyway, I like the way all the little pieces--the trifles--fit together to show us what happened.  The policeman's wife faces a real dilemma and makes a difficult choice.  And the last line is so ironic.  Funny.

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This play is fantastic. I admit to be far from a feminist, but Trifles points out how the observances and thoughts of women are overlokked in such a way that you have to see the feminist movement in a different light.


Many people believe that central issue of the play, the subservient roles held by the female characters, justified Mrs. Wright's choice to kill her husband. I'd argue that, but the domestic abuse she suffered at the hands of her husband would eventually have caused some typr of reaction regardless. You'd hope for strength and the ability or foresight to just walk out. But no one can judge another's neglect in doing something they should have done until they're in that person's position.

Today, young pople have a hard time understanding the oppressive nature of Mrs. Wright's existence. But it may be easier to understand if one steps back and looks at the 'exploitation' of women that continues even to this day.