Stereotypes in TriflesI ​​really like this piece. There is murder, mystery and deception. Interestingly, the play relies heavily on stereotypes. The men are the sheriff, deputy and attorney sent to uncover the details of the murder of a man found hanging in his bed. They look carefully in the room and outside the barn for clues and the women are sent, I think at first, to gather some things for Mrs. Wright. Men make fun of women. Worrying about things like freezing jelly and sewing. Mrs. Hale "Oh, her fruit; it froze. She worried about it when it was so cold. She said the fire would go out and her jars would break"; Hale "Well, women are used to worrying about trifles." They are not taken seriously. They are women and are not intelligent enough to understand the concept of solving a murder. Men have forgotten, it's the little things that bother people the most and for Mrs Wright it must have been the death of her canary. I think the canary symbolized Mrs. Wright. Mrs. Hale describes it; "She... come to think of it, she was a bit like a bird herself - very sweet and pretty, but rather shy and - fluttery. How - she - changed"; and like a bird, Ms. Wright even sang in a choir. But after her marriage, everything stopped. She no longer sang or attended social functions. Like a bird, his house has become his cage. The only happiness she seems to have is with this bird. The bird probably sang when it couldn't. He was probably her partner, she had no children. And like her, he was also in a cage. Because we don't know, we can only guess that her husband killed her bird. If he had killed the bird, he would have killed the only thing that mattered to her. He killed her once when he married her and caged her in this house, and he killed her again when he destroyed her bird. "No. Wright wouldn't like the bird - a thing that sang. It sang. He killed it too." When Mrs. Wright got used to his singing and her world went silent again, it was too much for her..