Oppression Of Women In The Twentieth Century

In today’s society, we generally see everyone as equal, but the vision of America at the turn of the 20th century, this particular view didn’t exist. Criticism have condemned a biggest part of that time. Women life was fully unprotected; their life was like an endless round of hard work. Even though women were working very hard at that time but still men were discriminated them in every part of their life. Their job was to stay home and busy with domestic chores like cooking, washing dishes, take care of children and that’s all. They can’t do anything more than that. The boundary of women’s life was in the kitchen and the men, who is usually go outside and works. According to the stage Direction, “The kitchen in the new abandoned farmhouse of John Wright, a gloomy kitchen, and left without having been put in order- unwashed pans under the sink, a loaf of bread outside the breadbox, a dish towel on the table-other signs of in completed work”
(1).
In this statement, “a gloomy kitchen” describes the darker part of our history in 20th century, where women had to spend their whole day to clean the home and cooks. The men in the play of “trifles” were searching for the evidence and they saw the kitchen is uncleaned. Mrs. Wright didn’t clean her kitchen, it looks totally messy; where unwashed dishes, a bread outside the box etc. That’s why the men who were investing the case they blamed Mrs. Wright to not cleaning the kitchen. For the reason, they might think that since the nature of her house is dirty than her lifestyle might be uncleaned too. In other side, I think there is positive sign for women in saying “new abandoned farmhouse,” because it represents that Mrs. Wright is done with everything. That’s all women don’t want to suffer more they need to get rid of it. this is not the life to spend whole life in a
kitchen.