Trifles

I find these type of plays best understood if read aloud, and with different voices, so I did the best I could!  I enjoyed this, I couldn't stop reading once I got a few pages into it.    If he died at night, and she woke up to that why didn't she run around screaming bloody murder!  She just sat in her chair, rocking.  Then she laughed at some of the things Lewis Hale asked and she just kept pleating her skirt like a mad woman.  I was wondering about the bread that was sat out, why this was of importance for the writer to tell us.  I find it amusing that women are the ones that seem do the real investigating here.  They keep saying they wish the men would hurry but all the things they find, the bread sitting out, the bad sewing job, the bird cage, the broken henge, these things must be important, yet they don't really realize it.  A few things went through my mind about why she may have killed him. 1. He didn't give her children.  2. She lost her youthful glow, and her house turned boring and not cheerful. Maybe by killing him, she thought she'd be happy again.  And I almost threw up when they found that bird in the box, EW!  Someone broke that poor bird's neck, I bet it was John.    These women have seriously found some hard evidence, but the men think they are just being silly women talking about knotting or  quilting.  Then the women hide the fact they even found the bird and lie about it!  They are obviously protecting their fellow lady friend.  Mrs. Peters understands the love a pet, and when something happens to it, you get enraged.      I would like to say that since John Wright snapped the birds neck,  his wife snapped his!   Obviously this what the women think, and what the author wanted us to see.  Sometimes I find it better when you know a secret to keep it, because it's kind of exciting to know something no one else does.  These women play it off so well, though the men think they are just dumb ladies talking about quilting.