2. What clues
lead the women to conclude that Minnie Wright killed her husband?
At first, women
started to develop their clues by getting known Minnie’s background closely.
Before married with John Wright, she is well known as Minnie Foster. She used to be a happy, appeared with pretty clothes,
socialize, and also lively girl who sang in the local choir, but after she
married John Wright, her life became unhappy and forlorn. Secondly, Minnie’s
canary was died. Her husband kills a part of her as well as the only thing left
in her life that gave her beauty and pleasure. The canary was the only thing
she had to help her feel better about being solitude and isolated from the
world. Lastly, the quilt itself. Women can see the evidence of turmoil in her
quilt. They wonder if she was going to quilt it or just knot it. The stitches change. Thus, they
actually see the evidence of unhappiness and troubled times everywhere in this
house.
3. How do men
differ from the women? From each other?
Men differ from
the women in their thinking, attitude and emotion. Things in this
play that the women see as important were not important for the men. The men
claim that it just another common trifle that the women are concerned about. For
example, when the Sheriff reaches up into the cupboard and comes away with a
sticky hand, the woman express sadness that her preserves fruit had frozen.
Rather than recognizing all the hard work that went into making those
preserves, the Sheriff exclaims, "Well, can you beat the women! Held for
murder and worrying' about her preserves". Secondly, the men never once question
their way of doing things. They are looking for something "big" in
the house, some big clue. The women, on the other hand are looking at the
smaller things and thinking about the emotional impact of the smaller things.
The men dismiss their methods knowing that they will never find anything that
way. Even at the very end, when the men have found nothing, they make fun of
the women once again. "Lastly, women rely more on emotions rather than
facts, while men do the opposite. Women in this play agreed that the basic
sense of self is connected to the world, while the basic of masculine sense of
self is separated from it. For example, when Mrs Hale said, “what we need is a
motive. Something to show anger of sudden feeling”. Women see their self as
interdependent whose moral judgment are tied to feeling and see moral problems
as problems of responsibility in relationship. Women’s consciousness could
empower women to take actions together which they not take as individuals by
sharing their experience. They could act out of a new respect for the value for
their lives as women. In this play,
women tend to find the clues and conclude the suspect of the murder.
4. What do the
men discover? Why do they conclude “Nothing here but kitchen things”? What do
the women discover?
As the play states “Trifles”, the men seem to focusing on the
smaller and unimportant elements of the crime scene and just have no time for
the women. At first, they went to upstairs, the barn and around the house
rather than discover the kitchen. For men, there was nothing important in the
kitchen that would point to any motive. Kitchen is just a part of domesticity
for women. On the other hand, the women discover the clues by using “the
homemaking instinct” and the main reasons why Mrs Wright was killed his
husband.
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