In older times, men always held authority in society. Detectives, police officers, and all the high ranking jobs were taken by males. In Susan Glaspell’s story, Trifles, things are shaken up a bit. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters discover evidence that could put or keep Minnie Foster out of jail. A bird with its neck snapped, hidden away. The death of it was very similar to how John Wright was killed, with a rope around his neck in bed. Their husbands search through out the Wright household to figure out more about the death of Mr. Wright. The trifle, an object with very little value, held all the evidence that the males needed for conviction, but they never expected their housewives to be the ones to find it. In this story, the women hold the power
