2. What clues lead the women to conclude
that Minnie Wright killed her husband?
The women first saw the uneven sewing as
if it is a sign of confusion, when Mrs. Hale says that “it looks as if she
didn't know what she was about”, Minnie Wright seems to be totally lost her
concentration and not thinking in a straight way. Then, Mrs. Peters saw a
bird-cage with one hinge of it is pulled apart, they were thinking that someone
must have been rough on it, though they have not mention directly who is
responsible for that, the readers are able to judge it through. Mr. John Wright
is always portrayed as a hard man; “Just to pass the time of day with
him-(Shivers.) Like a raw wind that gets to the bone,” says by Mrs. Hale, from
this there is a great probability that he could have been that cold towards the
bird as well.
The last clue is the discovery of the
dead bird with its neck on the other side as if someone wrung it. Such a
horrible doing couldn't be done by Minnie Wright which according to Mrs. Hale
“real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and-fluttery”. Someone like her
wouldn't torture the bird, but Mr. John Wright could have done that. On the
whole, it is not impossible for Minnie Wright to kills her husband over such a
great torture and suffering she have to endure.
3. How do the men differ from the women?
from each other?
The men seems to be looking for solid
evidence and reason for a murder to happen, that if someone would killed a
person, it must been have well planned, involve struggling, violence scene and with
a possible weapon. They didn't realize that it was a woman that is the main
suspect here, so they must think like woman in order to find out that one woman
don’t need a violence act to kill a person. While the women, they didn't
exactly there to look for evidence but their innate behavior lead them to the
real motive for a wife to kill a husband. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are only
wondering around the kitchen, talking and minding their own business, but not
to reveal who is the murderer but why murdering a person.
Men here is a problem solver, they went
up and down the house, going out to the barn, thinking what a murderer chose to
use and why John Wright didn't attack the person back even though he had a gun
in the house. Their role here is to think of a solution towards question and
confusion of the whole case. However, the women in ‘Trifles’ using their
instinct to react over something, and thought deeper over the situation, not to
look for a solution but to picture themselves at the same condition. This had
helps them to find out what cause Minnie Wright to attempt murder.
County Attorney in this drama shows so
much curiosity to find out more about the case, he’s been leading most of the
conversation regarding the flow of the event. Even so, he is constantly
criticizing the women, Mrs. Wright for having a messy kitchen, Mrs. Hale for
wondering about the knot and quilt and Mrs. Peters for worrying Mrs. Wright
preserves. He is a young man, his experiences over life hasn't broaden his
thought yet, so he didn't aware that he was wrong to left out women characters
when investigating a woman suspect. While Hale is a bit passive though he did
contribute to the opening of the investigation, he is obedient towards
authority of County Attorney and Sheriff. The way Mrs. Hale talks to Mrs.
Peters, it could be assume that she and her husband Hale having a pretty much a
normal family routine. Sheriff didn't very much says anything over the cases
but acknowledge his wife to married to the law by the fact of marrying him, but
similarly to County Attorney and Hale, he also thought that women could only
been worrying about the preserves.
4. What do the men discover? Why do they
conclude “Nothing here but kitchen things”? What do the women discover?
The men discover that there is a gun in
the house, there is no sign of anyone having come from the outside, and the
rope used to kill John Wright seems to be his own rope. They manage to find out
the whole process of the murder but they can’t figure out the reason of doing
it, County Attorney says, “a thing that would connect up with this strange way
of doing it”. They conclude that “Nothing here but kitchen things” because they
now sees Mrs. Minnie Wright as a murder suspect, they didn't realize that
before that she was a housewife of a farmer, a normal woman with a normal
everyday routine which definitely will involve the use of the kitchen. The men
assume that a murder should constantly act suspiciously unusual and horrible;
they left the fact that even a murderer is a human being.
The women incredibly manage to discover
not only the motives for Mrs. Minnie Wright to attempt a murder but also the
cruelty of oppression by John Wright towards his wife. The uneven quilting and
the stillness of the kitchen shows how much messy the mind of Minnie Wright,
she was depressed by loneliness and quietness of her home and life. The broken
bird-cage is a solid prove how awful the way John Wright treat Minnie Wright by
damaging something that would never give him any harm by any sense. He obviously
must have killed the bird too, a singing bird that reflect the character of
Minnie Foster, it is as if killed a part of his wife. Though it is never being
directly spoken by the characters but it is clear that Minnie Wright wouldn't
have killed anyone if she were to live like she did before her marriage.
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