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Trifles

The play explores gender roles and how the men fail to understand Minnie Wright's emotional state leading up to her murder of her husband John, while the women can sympathize with her. Minnie is depicted as becoming isolated and sad after marrying John. She kills him in retaliation for him killing her pet bird, which was her only companion in the lonely farmhouse.

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Trifles

The play explores gender roles and how the men fail to understand Minnie Wright's emotional state leading up to her murder of her husband John, while the women can sympathize with her. Minnie is depicted as becoming isolated and sad after marrying John. She kills him in retaliation for him killing her pet bird, which was her only companion in the lonely farmhouse.

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González Feliciano, Joselyn April 30, 2021

GEEN 2312 Trifles


Minnie Wright

After reading, I found that gender is the central theme of the play. All three of the men

are so focused on gathering evidence to use against Minnie in court that they ignore the signs

("trifles") that illuminate her emotional state leading up to the murder. Only the women can

understand and sympathize with Minnie.

The wife of the murdered John Wright, and his killer. Mrs. Hale remembers Minnie

for her youthful innocence and happiness before she was married (when she was Minnie

Foster). Back then, she sang joyfully in the local choir. But in marriage Minnie became timid,

sad, and isolated. (It is interested that even Minnie’s name connects her to a sense of

smallness and powerlessness: “mini”.) Minnie killed her husband by strangling him in

retribution for his final cruelness of killing her pet bird, the only being that provided

happiness and company for her in the loneliness of her home and the patriarchal society that

isolated her (and all women).

Minnie's dead canary is a symbol of lost freedom. Its cage, broken during one of John

Wright's rages, is symbolic of Minnie's marriage, which traps her with a man she does not

love in a farmhouse that's isolated from the community.

I liked this type of reading, even if I found it a bit confusing or do not read it as much,

I found it very enjoyable. Though I think Minnie is guilty. Because of her loneliness, she got

a bird to sing and keep her company. John, after some argument, kills the bird. As revenge,

Minnie strangled him in his sleep.

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