Trifles

October 14, 2016

Why didn't Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale tell the Sheriff and County Attorney about the dead canary?

I believe that the women didn't speak of the dead canary because they pieced together what was actually happening in the household. The women were looking for small hints that would make Mrs. Wright guilty, while the men were looking for the typical evidence such as a break in or left behind rope. The women were able to relate to Mrs. Wright, they knew something was wrong when they saw that Mrs. Wright's stitches on her quilt were askew. Also, Mrs. Hale knew that John Wright was not always a kind man and may have enemies, including his own wife. The women's point of view was more realistic because they were looking at all the different possibilities, when the men just believed that Mrs. Wright killed her husband because no one would be able to sleep through someone next to them being strangled. I don't think the women told the authorities about the bird because the men didn't find it to begin with. Also because the men were very disrespectful to Mrs. Wright and very sexist towards women because they believed that no house should look as dirty as the Wright household. The women knew that Mrs. Wright was a good woman and that she would never hurt anyone, unless someone did something disrespectful towards her, also she hit her breaking point with Mr. Wright when he killed her canary. The men would have never found the bird anyways, so Mrs. Wright would have never been convicted of murdering her husband.