Turning Points In Trifles
In the play Trifles I believe it has many significant points that make this story stand out and resemble many stories we here about in today’s society. We begin by having two women by the names of Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters and then the two government officials who were all at the dead man Mr. John Wright’s house examining the crime scene the murder that had just taken place at. The sheriff and attorney are set from the very beginning that Mrs. Wright was the murderer and base their whole case around finding evidence to back up their superstitions. The two woman, while snooping around, find a bird cage in the woman’s house and then eventually the bird which happened to also have died by way of strangulation or by means of neck injury as did
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Hale and Mrs. Peters both had a feeling that Mr. Wright killed the bird, “wrung-its-neck” (Glaspell 260), which I think determines the mindset of the women for the rest of the story. This is the point that is a very significant turning point in the story due to the fact that the two woman hide the evidence they have found and not only hide it but eventually steal the evidence from the scene. I believe that this is both ethically and morally wrong in all circumstances due to the fact that both women knew this would be a key turning point in the case. It states that Mrs. Wright suffered an abusive relationship her whole life which I think was the reasoning behind the women hiding the evidence due to the fact they knew it would be a motive for the murder leaving Mrs. Wright jailed for the rest of her life. I really like how the author compares Mrs. Wright to the bird herself in the story because it leads the reader to understand the meaning of why Mrs. Wright may have “rung her husband’s neck” because he had done the same to her bird. Susan Glaspell states, “She, come to think of it, was kind of like a bird herself, real sweet and funny, but kind of timid and funny. How she…. did change.” (Glaspell 260) This statement shows how Mrs. Wright after years of abuse
Hale and Mrs. Peters both had a feeling that Mr. Wright killed the bird, “wrung-its-neck” (Glaspell 260), which I think determines the mindset of the women for the rest of the story. This is the point that is a very significant turning point in the story due to the fact that the two woman hide the evidence they have found and not only hide it but eventually steal the evidence from the scene. I believe that this is both ethically and morally wrong in all circumstances due to the fact that both women knew this would be a key turning point in the case. It states that Mrs. Wright suffered an abusive relationship her whole life which I think was the reasoning behind the women hiding the evidence due to the fact they knew it would be a motive for the murder leaving Mrs. Wright jailed for the rest of her life. I really like how the author compares Mrs. Wright to the bird herself in the story because it leads the reader to understand the meaning of why Mrs. Wright may have “rung her husband’s neck” because he had done the same to her bird. Susan Glaspell states, “She, come to think of it, was kind of like a bird herself, real sweet and funny, but kind of timid and funny. How she…. did change.” (Glaspell 260) This statement shows how Mrs. Wright after years of abuse