The strangled songbird that the women in the play discover explains the ambition behind Mrs. Wright’s crime, but also symbolizes Mr. Wright’s treatment towards his wife. Minnie is connected to Mrs. Hale’s memory of her as a young, unmarried woman who liked to sing. Like the dead bird, Minnie was once extremely intelligent and held so much life within her, but this spark and life was strangled out of her life with Mr. Wright, by her married life caught in a patriarchal society living with man like Mr. Wright. The bird also symbolizes Minnie’s need for companionship, friendship and the feeling of fellowship in her home, and the death of the bird showed that Mr. Wright not only did not acknowledge this need but also stripped away her remaining source of happiness in a cruel, brutal and unfair …show more content…
Their contributions were to the house, their husbands and their families. Their input or happiness was not of any of the men’s concern in that time era. No where, is this thought, more powerful and lucid, when the men are gathered in the kitchen. To the men it is clear that the kitchen is the woman’s area of expertise, therefore unimportant. “You’re convinced that there was nothing of important… have nothing that would point to any motive… nothing here but the kitchen things” (Glaspell 981). In regards to a woman’s input, the men make it very clear that a woman’s opinion is not important at all. In the play, Glaspell also tries to get across the lack of important communication to her readers, which is also plays a dominant part in her story. Between Mr. and Mrs. Wright, there seemed to be little if not any communication between the two of