Women In The Play Trifles

Women were expected to do certain things around the house, and according to men, the duties expected were not difficult. The men exhibited confirmation bias throughout the entire story due to the sight of the incomplete housework. While the wives used the incomplete housework as evidence to crack the case. The incomplete housework holds different meanings to each gender based on how they live. In Susan Glaspell’s 1916 play Trifles, the incomplete housework recognized throughout the story included the dirty rag, the messy kitchen, and the incomplete quilt. A clean house was something that the men were accustomed to coming home too. In their eyes, the work they were responsible for and their wives could not be compared. When the topic of messy kitchen came to mind, they immediately criticized Mrs. Wright because she could have cleaned but chose not too. The woman put this into consideration, and they came to conclusion that the mess possibly wasn’t her fault. Mrs. Hale said for herself, that it wasn’t common for Mrs. Wright to have a messy home. The men in particular pointed out the dirty rag hanging from the wall that was another responsibility of the women to keep clean. To the men it was a sign of Mr. Wright’s hard work. They sympathized because they understood the hard work he probably had
One of the responsibilities of the women other than cleaning included sewing. Creating quilts to keep the families warm at winter was vital for survival. Quilts were created with many different fabrics and created with much time and patience. When the women came up on Mrs. Wright’s quilt pieces, they recognized the last piece had obviously been stopped abruptly and not finished. They considered that as a clue because it represented when Mrs. Wright snapped. The men shrugged it off because they didn’t understand quilt creating and just saw it as another responsibility she had failed to complete to as