In crimes, sometimes is more culpable the victim than the victimizer. In the play Trifles we find a variety of characters, even though it is a short play. All of them are interesting in their ways, but anyone like Mrs. Wright. She was the suspect of the murder of her husband, Mr. Wright. The character of Mrs. Wright have an intense contrast. She sways between being the suspect and being the real victim. What lead to the witness to consider her the suspect of the crime or which could be the motive of the assassination would be the main questions. Nevertheless, the real interrogative is how a human being can harm to a person and lead her until the point of no return. In the play, Trifles, Mrs. Wright would be guilty of committing a crime, but at the same time would be the first victim of the same crime? …show more content…
Wright doesn’t not appear directly in the play, what’s make her more interesting. Mrs. Wright as the protagonist have an important role on the play been suspect of kill to her husband. You can see the character through the eyes of the other character of the play, like: Mr. and Mrs. Hale, Mr. and Mrs. Peters, and the county attorney Mr. George Henderson. Mrs. Wright seems to be a happy and joyful girl until she got married with John Wright. Once she married John Wright (the antagonist character of the play) her life became hopeless and forsaken. She pass to be diminish and isolated by her husband, “women all go through the same things--it's all just a different kind of the same thing” (Glaspell). The free and cheerful spirit that she used to be come to be a sad past. Mrs. Wright is the protagonist of the story. She made to the other characters to suspect, reconsidered, to regret, to felt compassion. And not only to the characters of the play, but also to the reader. The way she act, make us see her as a cold blood criminal. But the perspective changed with just a fortunately