Trifles

So, Trifles. I just found out I start a lot of my paragraphs with "so." It's pretty funny. I only do it here though, 'cause it's a pretty casual writing. I think. Anyways...

Trifles is a story about three men investigating the death of a farmer at his house. Accompanying them are two women, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters. The women decide to look around a little, and the men criticize and make fun of them, saying that women worry about trifles rather than the important things. They allow them to take some things for the deceased man's wife, Mrs. Wright, as long as they're not important to the case. As you might expect, they end up finding incriminating evidence; a bird, strangled in the same manner as the dead man, was hidden in a box inside Mrs. Wright's sewing basket. This, along with the women's suspicion that Mrs. Wright had been unhappy after getting married, leads them to conclude that she had killed her husband, and had strangled the bird first for practice. They decide not to tell the men, however; I don't really know if they did it out of love for her or out of spite for the men's disrespect towards them, but they decide to hide the evidence, and the story ends implying that Mrs. Wright will not be incriminated.

I really liked the irony in the story, despite how clear and non-subtle it is. The men disregarded the women's opinions and intents, and they ended up finding the most important evidence due to their observational skills. The ending was a little predictable though, and in my opinion the best stories are those with unpredictable twists. I enjoyed reading it, but I must admit it's not exactly a story I'd re-read.