Women have lived for generations treated as nothing more than simple-minded creatures capable of doing little more than caring for their husbands and maintaining a home, but this idea is dangerous. The years in which they abused women by denying their rights, belittling them and keeping them at home were sometimes harmful 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, a local farmer's housewife, is investigated for the murder of her husband. While a local county prosecutor, a sheriff, and a neighbor search the house for motive and evidence that Mrs. Wright killed her husband, the men spend much of their time criticizing Mrs. Wright's domestic skills and belittling every woman in the play for their behavior. simplicity. Their assumptions about the female sex prevent them from seeing the crime scene for what it really was. Meanwhile, Mrs. Peters, the sheriff's wife, and Mrs. Hale, the neighbor's wife, are able to relate in many ways to the loneliness and loss of self that Mrs. Wright felt as she spent her days alone to take care of the house and her husband. The men in the play are so blinded by their sexist ideas about women, that they lose evidence of a motive to convict Mrs. Wright of murder. The men, after hearing the women discuss how Mrs. Wright was worried about freezing jarred fruit, make several comments about it being something trivial that a woman would worry about even if held back because of the possibility of homocide. Mr. Hale makes the comment: "-Well, women are used to worrying about trifles." (pp. 945) At one point Mrs. Hale states that the Wright house never seemed like a happy place. ... half of the paper ... he didn't give her freedom and friendships and he may have paid for it with his life. Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale, knowing and understanding the desperation and alienation felt by this housewife, found evidence of the motive for the murder, despite taunts and taunts from the men who should have been the ones they were looking for. the tests. The false ideas these men had about all women ended up hurting them and distancing them from the truth. Instead of revealing the discovered evidence, the wives decided to hide it from the men to protect Mrs. Wright. The disparaging attitudes presented by men may have seemed harmless at the time, but they distanced them from the truth and made women feel as if their idea would be ignored. Ultimately, if you look deeper, this male-dominated society was harmful not only to women, but also to men.