The play Trifles was written by Susan Glaspell in 1916. It reflects the author's assimilation to culturally bound views of gender and sexual roles. The title of the play, “Trifles,” evokes the concerns of women who are often considered trifles – insignificant matters – who have little or no importance to the real work of society which is, by all accounts, obviously, accomplished by men. Glaspell (Susan Glaspell 1902) questions, and thus calls upon the viewer or reader to also question, the comparative value of the work and perspectives of men and women by introducing a tense drama that stretches the development of two different narratives, one feminine and the other. male. Holstein (Suzy Clarkson Holstein 2003) asserts in her essay, although the question raised by Glaspell (Susan Glaspell 1902) is not only about the role of women in society, nor the way in which knowledge and perspectives are evaluated in circumstances specific. Holstein (Suzy Clarkson Holstein 2003) argues that the two corresponding Trifles narratives rely on "differences in [the perceptions and behaviors of men and women as they are] embedded in the family space" (p. 282). . Additionally, Holstein (Suzy Clarkson Holstein 2003) showed that the men in the play approach the Wright house, where Mr. Wright was found dead, as if from a crime scene, while the women who accompany them throughout the investigation approach the house as their home. Holstein (Suzy Clarkson Holstein 2003) determined that women and men have two very different motivations for being there: the men, to carry out their duties as legal professionals, the women, to organize several goods to bring to the imprisoned Ms. Wright. . Yet she argues that in Susan Glaspell's Trifles, the fact that the mutability of their motivations is firm, on the part of the men, on a... middle of paper...... and more importantly, that they build a credible image. narrative motivated by this evidence. Then, since they can sympathize with Mrs. Wright's anguish, they decide—quickly and without careful argument—that they must cover up her offense; indeed, they consider that his actions were justified. Separately, the county attorney and sheriff would take the law and their positions within it in a different way; again, this is not primarily due to their gender, but to their professional outlook and habitual behavior of seeing and knowing. Works Cited Clarkson Holstein, Suzy. (2003). Silent Justice in a Different Key: The Trifles of Glaspell. The Midwest Quarterly 44 (pp. 282-290). Glaspell, Susan. (2003). Trifles. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 6th ed. shorter. Ed. Nina Baym. New York: WW Norton & Company, 1893-1903.