"Trifles" summary

Trifles chronicles the differences in masculine and feminine thought patterns and in doing so discusses the nature of authority and how it is viewed in our culture. Basically, men and women account for two separate subcultures; however, these cultures were in now way equal when this play was written. By this we can infer that in our American Culture, men supposedly set the standards and thus account for much (if not all) of the authority. …

…It made too much noise. Thus, he killed the bird by squeezing its neck. Mrs. Wright then discovered her dead pet and placed its body in her beautiful sewing box. She was so upset and troubled over the lose and the reintroduction of a silent household that she decided to kill her husband for what he had done. So, she waited until he was asleep and then slipped a rope around his neck, killing him.