<P> The play begins as the men , followed by the women , enter the Wright 's empty farm house . On command from the county attorney , Mr. Hale recounts his visit to the house the previous day , when he found Mrs. Wright behaving strangely and her husband upstairs with a rope around his neck , dead . Mr. Hale notes that when he questioned her , Mrs. Wright claimed that she was asleep when someone strangled her husband . While the county attorney , Mr. Hale , and Mr. Peters are searching the house for evidence , Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters find clues in the kitchen and hallway to this unsolved mystery . The men find no clues upstairs in the Wright house that would prove Mrs. Wright guilty , but the women find a dead canary that cracks the case wide open . The wives realize Mr. Wright killed the bird , and that led to Mrs. Wright killing her husband . The wives piece together that Minnie was being abused by her husband , and they understand how it feels to be oppressed by men . Because they feel bad for Minnie , they hide the evidence against her and she is spared the punishment for killing her husband . </P>
<P> The play begins as the men , followed by the women , enter the Wright 's empty farm house . On command from the county attorney , Mr. Hale recounts his visit to the house the previous day , when he found Mrs. Wright behaving strangely and her husband upstairs with a rope around his neck , dead . Mr. Hale notes that when he questioned her , Mrs. Wright claimed that she was asleep when someone strangled her husband . While the county attorney , Mr. Hale , and Mr. Peters are searching the house for evidence , Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters find clues in the kitchen and hallway to this unsolved mystery . The men find no clues upstairs in the Wright house that would prove Mrs. Wright guilty , but the women find a dead canary that cracks the case wide open . The wives realize Mr. Wright killed the bird , and that led to Mrs. Wright killing her husband . The wives piece together that Minnie was being abused by her husband , and they understand how it feels to be oppressed by men . Because they feel bad for Minnie , they hide the evidence against her and she is spared the punishment for killing her husband . </P>
who is suspected of having killed the owner of the farmhouse in trifles
who is suspected of having killed the owner of the farmhouse in trifles
Mrs. Wright
Mrs. Wright