Character Analysis
Who is the main female character in "Trifles"?
Answer: Who is Minnie Wright?
What is a central theme of "Trifles"?
Answer: What is gender roles and social inequality?
What event sets the story in motion?
Answer: What is the discovery of John Wright's body?
What does the broken jar of fruit symbolize?
Answer: What is the shattered life of Minnie Wright?
Who says, “I might have known she needed help! I know how things can be—for women."?
Answer: Who is Mrs. Hale?
What is the relationship between Minnie Wright and John Wright?
Answer: What is husband and wife?
How does the play address the theme of isolation?
Answer: What is Minnie’s isolation from society and her husband?
Where does the play take place?
Answer: What is the Wright household?
What does the canary represent?
Answer: What is Minnie’s lost joy and freedom?
What does John Wright's character represent in the play?
Answer: What is oppressive masculinity?
Describe the character of Mrs. Hale.
Answer: Who is a sympathetic neighbor who regrets not visiting Minnie?
Explain the theme of justice in "Trifles".
Answer: What is the idea of moral justice versus legal justice?
What do the women find that becomes crucial evidence?
Answer: What is the dead canary?
Explain the significance of the quilt in the play.
Answer: What is it represents Minnie’s life and state of mind?
Explain the line, “We all go through the same things—it’s all just a different kind of the same thing.”
Answer: What is it highlights shared female experiences?
What role does George Henderson play in the story?
Answer: Who is the county attorney investigating the murder?
What does the play suggest about women's roles in society?
Answer: What is that women’s contributions are often overlooked?
How do the men view the women’s investigation?
Answer: What is they consider it unimportant?
How does the empty birdcage function as a symbol?
Answer: What is it symbolizes Minnie’s confinement?
What does Mrs. Peters mean when she says, “I think that is a great comfort to us.”?
Answer: What is it refers to the bond between women?
How do the female characters differ from the male characters in their understanding of the events?
Answer: What is the women empathize with Minnie, while the men dismiss her concerns?
How does the theme of loyalty manifest in the play?
Answer: What is the loyalty the women show towards Minnie?
What conclusion do the women come to at the end of the play?
Answer: What is to protect Minnie from the law?
What does the title "Trifles" imply about the objects found by the women?
Answer: What is that they hold significant meaning despite being deemed unimportant?
What is the significance of the final line in the play?
Answer: What is it underscores the women's decision to conceal evidence?