Trifles revisited

Susan Glaspell was really good at dropping hints throughout the story about other things than directly mattered. for example, we can decide why Mrs. Hale defended Mrs. Wright. When the county attorney is talking about the mess in the house she is quick to point out that there is a lot of work to do on the farm. She says this stiffly as if it was towards her which as a reader makes me believe that her house is probably in the same condition and with this little bit of information I can imagine that this is the connection between them. Maybe she begins to think to herself about what would make her do something like this because these two women used to be so much alike and had the same life on a farm with the same responsibilities. Because they were so much alike Mrs. Hale feels even more guilty for not making time to spend with her neighbor when they may have been good friends and they could have talked to each other about their problems. Mrs. Hale also understands that Mrs. Wright did not have a chance to clean the house before she left even if the police had given her time to do it they would not have let her because of evidence.
           Mrs. Hale begin to tell Mrs. Peters about Miss Minnie Foster, who thirty years ago became Minnie Wright after marrying John Foster. That she used to be happy and lively back then and now she stayed to herself and didn't feel that she could help anyone. She was even so off of herself that she was not sewing well and Mrs. Peters was putting together that she was upset about something. So both women had some sort of proof of the kind of life she may have lived and her mind the day that all of this happened. Both women begin to purposefully look for things that in their minds would show not if Mrs. Wright had done it or not, but if she did, why she would have and if she had reason. Mrs. Hale said one thing that did strike me a little on pg. 919 "I could've come. I stayed away because it wasn't cheerful-and that is why I ought to have come." This made me think of those, and I am guilty of it, of staying away from people who seem depressing or down because we don't want to be down, instead of trying to bring them up a little and show them what hope looks like. It was bad enough in the house that the neighbor stopped coming over. Then the women begin to talk about the kind of man that Mr. Wright was. From context clues I can believe that he was very serious and liked routine and did not want anything extra in his life. Almost like he just wanted to get through life as quickly and quietly as possible. Because he was so quiet and "cold", they deduced that he was the reason she wanted a bird. They had no children and women love to have something to take care of to feel important. When Mrs. Peters begins to talk to the men about the bird she begins to understand more about how Mrs. Wright felt by a mutual event that took place in both of their lives and even admits how upset it made her and she begins to understand that Mr. Wright may have taken the only little bit of love his wife had and killed it himself. She implies that he killed her spirit because "She used to sing. He killed that too." This entire story is not necessarily only men against women, it is about love and life and allowing each other to live it and to enjoy it together with your friends, family, neighbors, and community. That we are stronger when we are many and together than we are alone and vulnerable.