Read the excerpt from part two of trifles. mrs. hale. it’s log cabin pattern. pretty, isn’t it? i wonder if she was goin’ to quilt or just knot it? (footsteps have been heard coming down the stairs. the sheriff enters, followed by hale and the county attorney.) sheriff. they wonder if she was going to quilt or just knot it. (the men laugh, the women look abashed.) what is ironic about this excerpt? the men laugh at the women, and the women find themselves feeling very embarrassed by this. the men believe the women are incapable of discovering anything of substance when, in fact, they are the ones who discover evidence. although they are considered to be good, knowledgeable homemakers, the women are puzzled by which stitching technique was used in the quilt. although the women are in mrs. wright’s kitchen, they are unfamiliar with many of the items that they find.

the ironical instance in the above passage is that the men believed the women are incapable of discovering anything of substance when, in fact, they are the ones who discover evidence.

the play “trifles” by susan glaspell deals with the issues of the women. the identity of a woman is mocked by the men in the play who believe a woman can only be recognized by her husband’s identity. the female characters in the play are named by their husband’s name. the moment when mrs. hale and mrs. peters understood the murder mystery, they decided to hide the evidence. when the ladies were knotting the quilt their husbands gave a mocking remark at them that women can never be out from their household chores. but the ladies had discovered the evidence of the murder. the evidence was the pet bird who was killed the same way as mrs. wright's husband. hence, they concluded with the idea to hide the evidence to rescue mrs. wright as she was the suspect of her husband’s murder.

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