Stereotypes in TriflesI ​​quite like this play. Contains murder, mystery and deception. It's interesting that the show relies a lot on stereotypes. The men are the sheriff, the deputy and the lawyer sent to discover the details of the murder of a man found hanging in his bed. They search carefully in the bedroom and out in the barn for clues and the women are sent out, I think initially, to gather some things for Mrs. Wright. Women are laughed at by men. Worrying about things like freezing jelly and sewing. Mrs. Hale "Oh, his fruit; it froze. He worried about it when it got so cold. He said the fire would go out and his jars would break"; Hale "Well, women are used to worrying about trifles." They are not taken seriously. They are women and are not intelligent enough to understand the concept of solving a murder. Men have forgotten that it is the little things that worry people the most and for Mrs Wright it must have been the death of her canary. I think the canary symbolized Mrs. Wright. Mrs. Hale describes her; "She... now that I think about it, she was a bit like a bird herself: very sweet and pretty, but a little shy and... fluttering. How she's changed"; and like a bird, Mrs. Wright even sang in a choir. But after the wedding everything stopped. He no longer sang or attended social functions. Like a bird, his home has become his cage. The only happiness he seems to have is with this bird. The bird probably sang when she couldn't. He was probably her partner, he had no children. And like her, he too was put in a cage. Since we don't know, we can only assume that her husband killed her bird. If she killed the bird, she would kill the only thing that was important to her. He killed her once when he married her and caged her in that house, and he killed her again when she destroyed his dick. "No. Wright wouldn't like the bird... anything that sang. It sang. He killed that too." When Mrs. Wright got used to his singing and her world calmed down again, it was too much for her.