Also, when the county attorney took the group of men only upstairs where the crime took a place and women were left downstairs in the kitchen and nobody of them showed any kind of protest or objection. Also, The county attorney had talked about the poor state of the house, which became the women’s discussion subject when men went upstairs. On the other hand, the women praised Mrs. Wright for the way she had kept the house condition through her excellent housekeeping skills (Irigaray 815). In addition, the women express their concern that the county attorney’s remarks negatively affect the bereaved wife’s emotional status. Another perspective of feminism when the women searched the kitchen place in search of the items that Mrs. Wright had requested them from the jail. In the process of searching the house, the women soon discover that, a pet bird that Mrs. Wright has been keeping had been killed in the same manner that Mr. Wright has been murdered; a rope around the neck. However, the women are in fear to discuss about the dead bird openly. The series of behaviors clearly indicate that the women knew that the detectives could rely "on the bird’s death" to reinforce the evidence against the chief suspect, Mrs. Wright. Again, when they hear the men returning, they hide it and behave as if they had not been talking. These behaviors are manifestations of a patriarchal society where the kitchen is taken as a place made for women and with which men had nothing to. The men had traditionally held prejudices that led them to ignore the kitchen space as a potential source of evidence. The men’s notion is supported by the evidence that the detective team disregarded the women affairs as “trifles." The men went ahead to search the spaces in which they believed men had dominance. At one point, the sheriff retorted “nothing here but kitchen things” (Glaspell 1030). This remark clearly depicts Mrs. Wright’s sewing basket, where the dead canary was found, as women’s sphere, where nothing important could be found. To make the matter worse, the men kicked off some of the items they found on their way across the kitchen to demonstrate that the items were like “obstacles to the investigation process.” Another manifestation of the feminism in the patriarchal society is witnessed by the behavior the men expressed when they found anything feminine in the crime scene. It seemed that the men had preset minds even before the beginning of investigations. When …show more content…
The author exonerates the fears and problems under which the women live in the face of patriarchy. When the men descended from upstairs, the women hid the dead bird and stopped their conversation shortly, an indication that the patriarchal force had rendered them voiceless, and their concerns considered peripheral. At one point, Mrs. Peter remarks Mrs. Wright “had a hard man," for anyone to pass the day with, citing that this could be the reason for keeping a pet bird (Clarkson 284). Due to male dominance, the women had remained at the peripherals and isolated, and their lives became “devalued and