The story "trifles" is about two women who talk about Mrs. Wright, a woman who killed her husband. I think that the story shows how women during that time were considered silly and that they don't know any better. But the women pretty much figure out what her motive for murder is. Her husband took away something that meant something to her, and that's why she killed him. The men still didn't understand why she did it. They had no understanding of how she felt.