Trifles By Susan Glaspell Theme

The Blindness of Men

As described in the theme on the Social Oppression of Women, Trifles' utilize of gender roles establishes the men in the sphere of work and influence and the women in the sphere of the habitation and trifling concerns. Even so, at the same fourth dimension, the championship of the play highlights the trifling concerns that the men mock, and in doing and then emphasizes that the "trifles" that the men overlook considering they are feminine concerns…

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Gender Allegiance vs. Legal Duty

Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are torn between their loyalty to another woman – a loyalty built-in of their shared experience of social oppression – and their duty to obey the police and present the testify they uncover. The men in the play stress the importance of legal duty, particularly reminding the sheriff's wife Mrs. Peters, that she is, for all intents and purposes, "married to the police." Responsibility to the law is thereby equated…

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Justice

Trifles might be described equally a kind of murder mystery. Yet a murder mystery unremarkably ends with the criminal existence brought to justice, and instead in this murder mystery it is the idea of justice itself that is complicated. In discovering the dead bird, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters detect evidence that serves every bit a motive for Minnie's killing of her married man but also, from their viewpoint, somewhat justifies Minnie Wright's act of…

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