Women In Trifles

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Women often have greater senses than men. The fact that the male detectives cannot figure out what happened is one thing, but when the women try to piece together the events of the crime with their own knowledge of background information and character motivations, things get tense. The fact that the women solved the case rather than the men makes it true that women are better detective than men. Women uses more sense when it comes to things that consider them being serious although their minds are all over the place. In the play “Trifles” two women characters succeeding in something that most men could do, but in this case they couldn’t do. Also in the play “Trifles” male characters thought they knew so much just because they’re stronger.

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