Trifles

In the play "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale really caught my attention. On the other hand, i really found the men to be ignorant, blind, and self-absorbed. They think that they are so thorough in their investigation and so powerful because of their jobs and their status, but in the mean time, they did a terrible job of searching the house. I was somewhat dissappointed with Mrs. Peters toward the end of the play because she seemed to take the mens side when she she said "the law has got to punish crime". In a society like they live, women must stick together and stand up for one another, but i was really pleased to see her not turn over the canary in the end. i felt that there was alot of symbolism in this play, no first names for the women, symobolizing their role and duties to their husbands, the dead canary, symbolic of the "death of Mrs. Wright". She died internally, and the last bit of her happiness died as well when her husband killed the one thing she enjoyed. I loved the irony at the end that is discovered...Mr. Wright died the same way he killed the canary...what comes around goes around. I found their names to be rather ironic...even though "wright" is spelt differently, Mr. Wright was not a right match for his wife, but was "mrs. Wright" so right of a match for her husband either?