In an investigation men and women handle things very differently and have different views of what really happened. Men underestimate women all the time in today's society. Men believe that women cannot do a "man's job." Men believe that a women cannot do any job better then them. In this story of Trifles, Susan Glaspell shows how men criticize women in a murder investigation. .
Trifles, is about a murder that is based on an abandon farmhouse, and the investigation of a woman, Mrs. Wright. The investigation took place in Mrs. Wright's home by the Sheriff, Henry Peters and attorney George Henderson were in charge of the investigation. Mrs. Wright is taken into custody under the suspicion of the murder of her husband, John. With the help of the investigation, the sheriff's wife, Mrs. Peters and the neighboring farmer and his wife Mrs. Hale, they will all try to prove Mrs. Wright's innocence. .
As the men go about looking for clues for the investigation at the crime scene, the two women were accompanying the men. They found the house a mess with broken jars of preserved fruit that exploded due to the cold climate. As the two gather clothing for the jailed Mrs. Wright they come across several clues through out the house. One of the most important clues they came across was the sewing basket of Mrs. Wright which contained a quilt and quilting pieces that she had been working on when she was arrested. Mrs. Hale discovers the quilt piece that Mrs. Wright had been sewing last and noticed that the sewing pattern changes and becomes all tangled up. She shows this to Mrs. Peters and then begins to untangle the seam and re-sews the seam in a more straight and neat fashion. .
Then the women then discover a birdcage with the door half torn off and begin to wonder when Mrs. Wright had got this bird. The women try to figure out what had happened to the bird and Mrs. Hale suggests that a cat might have ate it, but Mrs.
