When a person goes through a traumatic event in their life, they can either choose to accept what happened and come out of the experience in a positive way, or they can choose to move on from it. cope in a negative way. In “Trifles,” by Susan Glaspel, Mrs. Wright deals with the death of her pet bird, from what we can infer from the text, by killing her husband? Mr. Wright. In "Trifles", even though men are dominant in society, the female characters in the story, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, view them as fools. The fools driving the story are three men: the sheriff, the county attorney, and Hale. What gets these men labeled as imbeciles is their apparent blindness to the fact that in that era, male dominance was considered normal and women were expected to submit to their husbands. According to the New York Times, men are “blinded by ignorance and insensitivity” (New York Times Review). The men of this period, by being ignorant and insensitive towards their own women, shows their character and only adds to their attitude towards women. This also proves why these men are so stupid because they just assume that their wives should submit to them when they can be ignorant and insensitive towards them. The writer Henry James said that no story “is possible without its fools” (387). However, the three male characters do not realize that their foolish ways are what drives the scenes and motivates the female characters, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, in their actions. Trifles was published in 1916 and because of this, the time period plays an important role. a lot in history. According to the accompanying notes to the text, trunked telephones are "a shared line in which a number of households each have single-line extensions, a common arrangement at first...... middle of paper... .. They were the smartest, but in reality the fools. Women may have remained true to their roles in society, but they did not play those roles in themselves. Instead, they worked together and proved to each other that they could outsmart men and, for once, not be the fools and be the dominant ones, beyond all that, by uncovering the motivations and solving the murder of Mr. Wright. They even went so far as to defend their gender and hide evidence to protect Ms. Wright. Whether or not men intended to be these ignorant and irrational people, their actions and attitudes towards women, especially towards their wives, added to their folly. Men played their role in society just as well as women and men proved that they were dominant in their own way and in their minds, but remained blind and imbecile..