Triffles

The males in the play were clearly on the mans side of the story no matter how much of a feeling they had that it was he that he was in the wrong in the way that he treated his wife. They didn't even really like him for the same reasons that they subconsciously know he probably had problems with his wife. You realize this whenever they come to a point that demonstrates his flaws in character. For example when Mr. Hale is describing the day that he found Mr.Wright and makes a point to tell them how all Mr. Wright wanted was some peace and quiet, and how he didn't care much for what his wife wanted, the attorney quickly stops him in an attempt to not tarnish him or something to that extent.Then when the men are looking around they look at all the small flaws as the woman's fault, in an attempt to sort of find a way to blame her or place it on her why this whole situation looked so bad. When the women try to put their two cents into faulting Mr.Wright, the attorney once again cuts them short. He doesn't want to hear how it could have been his own fault that he was murdered. Maybe this will help him stay on Mr.Wrights side for defense purposes or maybe he just doesn't feel it's ever a mans fault, women are there to just fill in the gaps of men's time, and they are flawless.
The women in this play know what goes on in a household. They think about how with no children, how could this house be in such disarray. They think back to whom Mrs. Wright was, and they never refer to her as such because in their minds she was suppose to have continued being that person they knew, Minnie Foster. But they know they understand and they can see beyond what the men see.All the details, from the sewing to the bird that they find, let them know what they suspected all along about that house.They know how she changed, what could have driven her to it. Mrs. Peters makes it easier to understand what it was by comparing it to loosing a baby like she did.The way the play mentions their shivers and so forth at the thought of Mr. Wright, even for the male characters just lets us know how bad and scary he was. The women all though the sheriffs wife thinks the law is the law she knows that there has to be some punishment for what was done to this woman. Her soul was taken from her. She was killed, but left to live. Although killing someone is a crime, what she did is somewhat justified and they are not going to help the attorney in a clear cut way. They even outright lie when they are asked about the cat, that is when you know that they are on her side of the story.
But what could have driven her to marry such a man? He must have had some good to him, or did he just take her as his wife?