respond to student #2 W/C 150

A lack of awareness of cultural differences or the assumption by one cultural group that another is inferior often results in painful personal and social encounters.  This thesis is applied from the beginning to the very end of the play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell.  The men and women clearly view and treat the opposite sex in a sarcastic and inferior manner.   Mr. Henderson, the county attorney, shows examples of this quite often.  “Well, women are used to worrying over trifles.”  (Baym, 2013. Pg. 1930) Trifles are an article or thing of little value or importance.  “Ah, loyal to your sex. I see.” (Baym, 2013. Pg. 1930) Mr. Henderson made this snide remark when Mrs. Hale tried to defend Mrs. Wright’s housekeeping.  The men even have too much pride in asking the women to help look for clues in the investigation of Mr. Wright’s death.  If the men in the play did not view women as being inferior they would know that “we all go through the same things- it’s all just a different kind of the same thing”, they could have figured out that Mrs. Wright killed Mr. Wright and what her motive was. (Baym, 2013. Pg. 1935) The women, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale, found all of the clues in Mr. Wright’s murder.  They found the quilt that started out “nice and even”, then ended up “all over the place.  They found the bird that went with the cage with its neck wrung.  When the county attorney asked about the bird, the women lied and said, “we think the – cat got it.” (Baym, 2013. Pg. 1934) Even with having all the clues to the murder the women still find a way to hide the evidence because of how the men acted towards them.