TRIFLES BLOG 2

BLOG 2

TRIFLES   (understanding the three women in the play)

            In the times (am concluding 19^th century) portrayed in this play, the setting of the play, wording used, quietness of the women and the respect portrayed by the women towards the Men/husbands I am assuming in this play that women hadn’t the right to vote as yet much less do anything else without their husbands knowledge. In this play women are helpless to their men’s control and are looked at as just good enough for the kitchen and controlled areas mainly the home. So investigating was not for women they weren’t smart enough. Yet it was the women in this play that solved the murder without their husband’s knowledge, they instead of the men looked at the little things that took place in the areas that they were familiar with like the kitchen and all its items undone or incomplete. Some of the tell tale signs to a woman that stuff was left in a hurry, for example the mention of the jars bursting in the cold, the towels hanging, the detailing of the quilt. Things only the women would know to look for, these are the ideas that link these women together wither they wanted to or not. With the investigation going on the women found that they shared so much in common, and find that they feel a responsibility of some sort with what had happen to Minnie, they question that if they had intervened maybe even visited now and then seeing that they lived so close would this murder have occurred.

            The women were all to themselves, caught up with their duties and preparing after the men. They were supposed to carry themselves in a certain way.

The first and trivial wife to the play is Minnie Wright formerly Minnie Foster who is now considered a murderer. She was once a beautiful woman that sang in the choir and was said to be seen in the early happier days of her life as “wearing white dress with blue ribbons” and always lively. She was married to a man that drained her of all her happiness, leaving her to cling to a bird for comfort and company, which her husband has now killed. In the play the killing of the bird symbolizes that’s Minnies husband killed her to, just not literally. The play remarks that Mr. Wright was “close with his money” leaving one to draw that he was cheap and didn’t spend money on Minnie therefore leaving her without cloths to go out and meet with other neighbors.

Mrs. Peters