Analysis Of John Wright And Mrs. Wright

Marriage is often portrayed as this romantic ideal. The couple gets married and lives in a nice house. The husband works while the woman takes care of the house and children. Everyone is happy in that situation. However, that is not the case with marriage. Once a couple get married they feel the pressure of filling the stereotypical role of what it means to be a wife or husband. When we try to fill these roles we lose our sense of identity and become unhappy. It is clear that John Wright and Mrs. Wright were unhappy in their marriage. The characters in the story live in a farming community. The farmhouses are miles apart from each other. There is often no other company except for your family. John Wright and Mrs. Wright were not happy in their marriage. The Wright’s never had any children in all their years of marriage. In the eyes of some Ms. Wright was not fulfilling her part of what it meant to be a wife. Back then wives were often to blame if the couple was unable to have children. This probably contributed to Mrs. Wright’s unhappiness. This also probably made John Wright unhappy too. Children are essential when it comes to …show more content…
and Mrs. Wright were together, but they were also alone. They did not have any friends. They were not really part of their community and neither did their community reach out to them. “We live close together and we live far apart. We all go through the same things-it’s all just a different kind of the same thing” (Glaspell 1392). Trifles points out one of the problems with modern day society. We lose our sense of community and concentrate on ourselves. People need their community when they are going through rough times. Mrs. Wright never had anyone to talk to about her problems or express her grief over her bird. Maybe if she had the support of her community she would have reacted so violently. John Wright would have also had someone to talk to. Someone could have helped them both if people were not so concentrated on their