Roles Of Women In Trifles By Glasbell

The roles for women and men haven 't changed until the recent century. Up until now, women kept to the maternal side of life: staying pretty, cooking, cleaning, marrying, raising the children, and never working or learning of work since that was for the men to do. The men wouldn 't dare be seen doing women 's work. Plainly, women weren 't held to the respectful standards men were. In the nearly one hundred year old play "Trifles" by Glasbell, there was a significant example on how the respect for ideas differ from the different genders. In the beginning of the story the scene gives a lot to how the tone of the story will be. All house work half done, the woman nervous and uncomfortable, and the men cold and uncaring to what the woman have …show more content…
As the women continue their talk of Mrs. Wright 's life, it slowly unifies them against the man in the retelling, as well as the men in their life. The men, with an air of self-importance, continue their investigation for a motive. As they continue, they find every opportunity to tease the women, "Sheriff: They wonder if she was going to quilt it or just knot it! (The men laugh, the women look abashed.)" The disrespectful act of teasing the women, lead them to stand united against their husbands to side with the murderer. "Mrs. Peters: Somebody-wrung-its-neck. (Their eyes meet. A look of growing comprehension, of horror." The sweet bird that lent Mrs. Wright a moments joy, wrung dead. Mr. Wright was killed by strangulation through a rigging, where someone could have pulled from a distance until he died. By the time they found the bird, they 've already been on the defense with the men, and so to them as an act of sympathy and solidarity, they hide the link in the case. To the end, they stay loyal to their gender and the men ask Mrs. Hale only if they figured out if Mrs. Wright was quilting or knotting, to which she replied, knotting. The gender roles for men and women are apparent in this play. The reader is able to see how self-important the men are characterized as, and how defensive the women are to even take the side of a murderer. The respect given to the women from the men only