To Kill A Canarie: "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell

Trifles are defined as "Something of little value or importance" ("Trifles" 580). A lot of times in life the solutions to or causes of problems can be rooted to trifles. In Susan Glaspell's "Trifles", a play based on an actual trial that took place in the early 1900's, when women did not have constitutional rights and were looked at as "property" (Rottenberg 737) trifles were a matter between life and death. Mrs. Wright, a woman with no children and an aggravated husband has one hope left, here canary. Mr. Wright, her husband becomes agitated with the bird and violently strangles it, and i…