In the play Trifles by Susan Glaspell's, there is a case of a man killed in his sleep with a rope and no one knows who did it. The main suspect is his wife, which was asleep beside him when the murder occurred. Through the play, the characters are in the house of the assassination looking for clues to catch the guilty one. In the kitchen, the two ladies found a dead bird in a box. They thought John, the dead man, killed the bird. His wife liked very much the bird because of its singing and liberty. The bird symbolizes Mrs. Wright desire for freedom and happiness. Her husband killed the bird, as he symbolically killed her. That's why it's implied that his wife was the one who killed him because he limited her liberty. She liked to sing, and he didn't; their marriage made Mrs. Wright change her behavior. Mrs. Hale describes her: “Wright was close. I think maybe that's why she kept so much to herself. She didn't even belong to the Ladies Aid. I suppose she felt she couldn't do her part, and then you don't enjoy things when you feel shabby. She used to wear pretty clothes and be lively, when she was Minnie Foster, one of the town girls singing in the choir. But that—oh, that was thirty years ago. This all you were to take in?” The bird symbolizes her liberty taken away by her husband. Also in the play there is a sexist problem between the husband and the wife. The men think they're superior that the women. He treated her badly, as if she was a property that her only job was to do chores. At that time period, men didn’t appreciate women; they act as if the work of women do is inconsequential.
Link of play:http://www.one-act-plays.com/dramas/trifles.html
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