The Question and Answer section for Trifles is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Womens perspectives on men differ as men are dutiful and are sincerely searching for the evidences in the house where murder took place but women are just worrying about the trivial matters and when they find the motive behind the murder,the dead...
The bird represents Minnie.... when she was a girl, she was happy vivacious, and loved to sing. The bird's death represents her life after marriage.... isolated and confined.
The birdcage represents imprisonment.... the isolation Minnie feels in...
Female identity and patriarchal dominance make up the main theme of the story. In Trifles, the men believe that they grant female identity by virtue of the women's relation to men rather than through their inherent qualities as females. Except for...
