Meaning Of Trifles By Susan Glaspell

“Trifles” was written in 1916 and it is a work of Susan Glaspell. In “Trifles” the are a lot of trifles that for men they are only objects but for women these trifles are very good clues to discover who has murdered Mr Wright. In the next paragraphs i will explain the meaning of these trifles that help women to discover the murderer. The first trifle is the jars of preserves. These jars maybe represent the feelings and the sanity of Mrs Wright, when theses jars break because the temperature go down in the house that means that Mrs Wright has reached her breaking point and her heart is now broken, it is at this time when she reconsider to kill him. One of the most important symbol in this play is the bird’s cage and the bird. Because this canary represent Mrs Wright and the bird’s cage is Mrs’ Wright life. When she was single she song in the choir and she was happy but after her marriage with Mr Wright her life became a prison, a cage, she lost all her freedom and her life tourn in sadness and hopelessness. So when Mr Wright decide to kill the canary because he demand silence, Mrs Wright decide that she has to revenge her little bird the only one who keeping her companing whereas she was alone in the house. Even the death of Mr Wright is symbolic, Mrs Wright can kill him with a gun or with a knife but she decided to kill him in the same way he killed her canary, she choked him to revenge her little friend.

As we said before, there is a lot of trifles that are only trifles for men but for women these trifles are full of symbolism and clear clues that help Mrs Peter and Mrs Hale to discover that Mrs Wright has killed her husband.