Introduction: How the play begins	The murder scene with Hale going back in time explaining how he found Jack Wright dead.	
Author Information: 	Susan Glaspell’s life and how it relates to this play. The reason that she wrote this play, her life at the time. 	
Conflict:	The men downgrade Mrs. Wright and the house trying everything possible to convict her, while the women defend all that she has. 	
Thesis:	Mrs. Hale utilizes ethos, logos, and pathos in order to cover any such evidence that would convict Mrs. Wright of murdering her husband.    	
Paragraph # 1: Ethos	Mrs. Hale utilizes a woman’s identity and self image in a farmhouse. How difficult it is. 	
Kitchen – housekeeper- dirty towels	Why it was ok for the kitchen to be dirty.
-Her being rushed from her house.	
Food: fruit and bread	Setting out as if she had been interrupted so Mrs. Hale puts it all away, while disposing of the bad. 	
Married to John Wright	He was very passive, quite, and unhopeful, brought her down. Showed Mrs. Wright no attention.	
Paragraph # 2: Logos	Mrs. Hale critically uses her logic and knowledge as a house wife to piece together the murder and cover any evidence. 	
Quilt piecing-	There was a particular block sewn all over the place, Mrs. Hale quickly rips the sewing and rethreads it as if nothing even happened. 	
Bird Cage- With no bird	Mrs. Hale immediately began blaming the death on a cat…but then notices the cage abruptly bent.	
Dead Bird	While searching for patches for the quilt, the women find the bird strangled, and know how this had to of eaten Mrs. Wright alive. She hides the bird from their husbands in order to hide evidence.	
Paragraph # 3: Pathos	Mrs. Hale thinks about and literally feels Mrs. Wright’s emotions. Her loneliness finally caught up to her.	
The death of Mrs. Wright’s bird	Following her husband killing her bird, she just snapped and did what anyone would do under that amount of pressure. Mrs. Wright was the victim. 	
Mrs. Wright feels responsible	Wishing she would have spent more time with Mrs. Wright might have prevented this horrible accident. 	
Married for thirty years with no children	How lonely Mrs. Wright must have been having such a hard husband with no one to speak to.	
Conclusion:	The husbands were not able to find enough evidence to convict Mrs. Wright of murder.	
Reason for this Conclusion	Due to Mrs. Hale’s knowledge as a house wife she was able to solve the murder and cover any evidence that was attained while doing so. For example she discarded the bird. 	
Title: Trifles 	Meaning small things, referring to all the small symbols and images that conclude to Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peter’s question of whether or not Mrs. Wright committed the murder.