Crime In Susan Glaspell's Trifles

The play Trifles written by Susan Glaspell has several opinions on what can be taken as a crime from the men and women. Whether the crimes were justified, and who did what is something that needed to be investigated more. After looking through both discussions we previously had to do I felt like this one had more controversy because of the events that happened during the play. Both the men and women had different views on what it meant to commit a crime as well, so it can be taken in two points of views. Various crimes were committed throughout trifles from characters. The main crime that took place in the play would be the murder of John Wright and there were clear reasons that showed Minnie Wright was suffering through out her life, which would make the point that she is the one that murdered him. For example, while she was quilting it shows how nervous she started to get “Here, this is the one she was working on, and look at the sewing! All the rest of it has been so nice and even. And look at this! It's all over the place! Why, it looks as if she didn't know what she was about!” pg. 18. At this point Mrs. Wright was so distressed and could not sew normally, which was unlike her from what the other two women were saying about it. While Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are going …show more content…
First, it starts off with a death of a character and all the possibilities of what could have happened throughout the play investigating it. What I think they really tried showing in the play is that there is never just one side of a crime. It shows the men’s perspective of what is happening, and it shows the women’s perspective, which are two different types. The two main types in this case were emotional and rational acts. The play does not just go out and say the wife is the one who murdered Mr. Wright because it wants us to think more about what is happening and listen to all sides of the story that is going