Women lived for generations being treated as simple, simple-minded creatures who could do little more than care for their husbands and maintain a home, but that idea is dangerous. Years of mistreating women by denying them their rights, belittling them and keeping them at home have sometimes been detrimental not only to the female sex, but also to the male sex. Susan Glaspell is the author of the short play “Trifle,” in which Mrs. Wright, the housewife of a local farmer, is investigated for the murder of her husband. As a local county attorney, sheriff, and neighbor scour the house for motive and evidence that Mrs. Wright killed her husband, the men spend much of their time criticizing Mrs. Wright's housekeeping skills. and belittling every woman in the room for their simplicity. Their assumptions about the female gender prevent them from seeing the crime scene as it really was. Meanwhile, Mrs. Peters, the sheriff's wife, and Mrs. Hale, the neighbor's wife, are able to understand in many ways the loneliness and loss of self that Mrs. Wright felt as she spent her days alone to take care of her house and her husband. The men in the play are so blinded by their sexist ideas about women that they miss the evidence of a motive to convict Mrs. Wright of murder. The men, after hearing the women discuss how Mrs. Wright was worried about her jarred fruit being frozen, make several comments about it being something insignificant for a woman to worry about. would cause concern even if she were detained for risk of murder. Mr. Hale comments: “Well, women are in the habit of worrying about trifles. » (pp. 945) At one point, Mrs. Hale mentions that the Wright household never seemed like a happy place. ...... middle of paper ...... did not allow him freedom and friendships and may have paid for it with his life. Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale, knowing and understanding the despair and alienation this housewife felt, found proof of the motive for the murder, despite the taunting and teasing of the men who were supposedly the ones looking for the proof. The false ideas these men had about all women ended up hurting them and preventing them from knowing the truth. Instead of the wives presenting the discovered evidence, they decided to hide it from the men to protect Mrs. Wright. The derogatory attitudes presented by men may have seemed harmless at the time, but they distanced them from the truth and made women feel like their idea would be ignored. Ultimately, if we look closer, this male-dominated society was detrimental not only to women, but also to men..