Trifles summary

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Trifles summary
The setting of this one-act play is a farmhouse kitchen in the Midwest. Instead of modern appliances, there is a hand pump at the sink for water, and a wood-burning stove for warmth and for ng. From the kitchen, there are three doors: one to the parlor, one to the upstairs, and one to the shed and then on to the outdoors. In the middle of the room is a rustic dining table and chairs. The room has not been cleaned up and looks as if someone was interrupted in the midst of ng a meal. Dirty pans are stacked under the sink, a loaf of bread is sitting outside the breadbox and a dishtowel is sitting on the table.
The door to the shed opens and Sheriff Peters, County Attorney Henderson and Lewis Hale, a neighboring farmer, enter the kitchen followed by the sheriff's wife and the neighbor's wife.
The sheriff and the county attorney begin questioning Mr. Hale about events that occurred on the previous day. Mr. Hale told them he was on his way into town and decided to stop and ask John Wright to go together with him for the cost of a party telephone line. He had asked him in the past but he said no, so Mr. Hale wanted to talk to him about it in front of his wife with the hope that she might have some influence.
When Mr. Hale knocked on the Wrights' door, there was no answer. It was after eight o'clock, so he knew they were up. When he knocked a second time, he thought he heard an answer, so he went in. He found Mrs. Wright rocking in a rocking chair and pleating her apron in her hands. He asked to speak to her husband, but she told him no because he was dead. She indicated that he was upstairs and that he had been strangled with a rope. When he asked her who had done that to her husband, she said she did not know because she had slept through it.
At the end of Hale's story, the men prepare to investigate upstairs. The county attorney opened a kitchen cupboard and noticed that a jar of preserves was broken and spilled on the f. Mrs. Peters explained that they must have frozen in the night and the jar broke. She said that Mrs. Wright worried about her fruit freezing. The county attorney indicated that Mrs. Wright would have more important things to worry about when they finished the investigation, but the sheriff said that women always worry about trifles.
The county attorney washed the preserves off his hands in the sink and reached for the roller towel to dry them, but he could not find a clean place on the towel to use. He became critical of Mrs. Wright's housekeeping skills, but Mrs. Hale defended her saying that, "there is a great deal of work to be done on a farm." The county attorney asked Mrs. Hale if she and Mrs. Wright were friends. She said that she liked Mrs. Wright but never felt comfortable in the house with Mr. Wright around; that the house was not a very happy place.
As the men prepared again to go upstairs, Sheriff Hale reminded the county attorney that Mrs. Hale is to get some of Mrs. Wright's belongings to take to her. The attorney agreed, but told Mrs. Hale that he wanted to see everything she selected and to keep an eye out for anything that might help his investigation. The men disappeared up the stairs.
The women examine the kitchen a bit more closely, noticing that Mrs. Wright had been making bread and that she left the bread out on the counter instead of putting it away. They examined all of the jars of fruit and found only one that was not broken, a jar of cherries.
The women go into another room and return carrying a dress, a petticoat a skirt, and a pair of shoes to take to Mrs. Wright in jail. Mrs. Hale remembers Mrs. Wright when she was younger, a pretty town girl who sang in the choir, before she met her husband. She suspected that Mrs. Wright was not involved in the ladies' auxiliary because her husband was stingy, she felt shabby and like she had nothing to contribute. Mrs. Peters remembered that Mrs. Wright had asked for an apron and for her little shawl that was hanging behind the door.
The women begin speculating on the crime, knowing that the prosecutor will make fun of Mrs. Wright for saying that she slept through the murder. They speculate on the craftiness with which the crime had to have been committed for Mr. Wright, himself, not to be aware of it. It is common knowledge that there was a gun in the house, but there is no apparent motive, and no sign of anger.
Next, the women discover Mrs. Wright's sewing basket with a quilt that she had begun sewing. They wondered aloud if she was going to hand stitch or tie the quilt. The men returned in time to hear the question, and again laughed at the women for worrying about trifles. The men went outside to the barn.
The women noticed that the quilt square that Mrs. Wright had been working on had erratic stitches in it, uneven and scattered. Mrs. Hale pulls out the uneven stitches and does them over again neatly, wondering the whole time, what Mrs. Wright was so nervous about that made her stitches erratic.
Next, the women noticed an empty birdcage. Mrs. Hale remembers a traveling salesman selling canaries cheap a few months prior, but she does not know if Mrs. Wright had purchased one. The birdcage door was broken, with one hinge pulled apart as if someone had been too rough with it. Mrs. Hale expresses regret that she had not come to visit Mrs. Wright sometimes. She said the only reason she did not is because she didn't like the place. It was always so lonesome and secluded. Mrs. Peters reassures her that she should not feel bad about it; as she was so busy herself with her farm and children.
The women talk for a while about Mr. Wright. Though Mrs. Hale concedes that John Wright was a "good" man who did not drink, kept his word and paid his debts, she also said he was a hard man, "Like a raw wind that gets to the bone." Mrs. Wright, according to Mrs. Hale, was like a bird herself, pretty and timid, and she sang sweetly. Mrs. Hale suggested that it would be nice to take Mrs. Wright's quilting to her to give her something to pass the time in jail.
The women begin to gather up her belongings, searching for the rest of the sewing materials. They find a pretty box and think that maybe the scissors are in there, but instead find the dead canary, its neck wrung.
The men return from outside as Mrs. Hale slips the box under the quilt pieces. The men again make fun of the women and their worries over trifles. The men again disappear upstairs, still searching for evidence of a motive.
The women realized with horror that Mrs. Wright loved the bird and was going to bury it in the pretty box. Mrs. Peters remembers when she was a young girl that a neighbor boy killed her kitten. She says if she had not been held back, she would have hurt him. Mrs. Hale expresses certainty that John Wright killed the bird. She reflects that after having the bird singing in the house, the stillness would be overwhelming. Mrs. Peters could relate to stillness, reminiscing about being on a homestead alone after the death of her first child. Mrs. Hale again expresses regret that she did not visit Mrs. Wright, and an understanding of the way things are for women.
The women agree that Mrs. Wright should not be told about the shattered fruit jars just as the men return downstairs. The county attorney comments that the case is pretty clear except that they have not found any hard evidence. He briefly looks over the belongings that the women have gathered to take to Mrs. Wright and approves them. Mrs. Hale hides the pretty box with the dead bird in her jacket pocket to dispose of it later.
The last bit of conversation is made up of the men questioning the women again about the quilting, one of many women's trifles.

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