trifles

ESSAY 2 Throughout time women have broken off the shorter end of the stick against men. Even when women have been correct and justified in their opinions, they have often been ignored and had their opinions and thoughts vanquished. Sometimes men will amuse women by taking their thoughts into consideration, but many times the real essence of what a woman says is lost in the rolling of eyes and laughter or scorn of men. How many …

…up to the fact that she killed out of self-defense against an abusive husband. Even when given the most obvious clue about knotting the quilt, the men did not care to acknowledge the reason behind Mrs. Wright’s anger. The women use nothing but trivial contexts in this drama to mask their own discovery and understanding of the murder, while the men know the murderer without being able in their righteousness to understand the crime.