The one-act play "Trifles" is loosely based on the murder of a farmer in the state of Iowa in the early 19th century, including Glaspell reported while working as a journalist. . The farmer's wife was charged with the murder and was initially found guilty, but later acquitted. Literary analysts note that Glaspell "approached the case like a detective" (Bryan and Wolf). More than a decade after this incident, when she was a career writer, analysts describe that "within ten days, Glaspell composed a one-act play" inspired by this real-life murder event (Bryan and Wolf). In "Trifles", while the county attorney and sheriff, along with Mr. Hale, investigate Mr. Wright's murder, companions Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters sort through Mrs. Wright's kitchen and cupboards for collect his belongings. Investigators are certain that Mrs. Wright is the killer, but they are looking for clues to establish a motive, and they ignore looking closely in the kitchen assuming it doesn't matter. Through the characters' voices, Glaspell critiques the stubborn patriarchal society. In this play, although Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters find incriminating evidence against Mrs. Wright, they find her not guilty of her husband's death based on their knowledge of Mrs. Wright's character, her husband's heavy taxation, and also because of their sympathy for her.Analyzing the personality of the central character, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters scrutinize the transformation of a pleasant and vivacious Minnie Foster into a lonely housewife, Mrs. Wright. Thirty years ago, Minnie was a very bubbly and charming girl, "who wore pretty clothes and was vivacious" and she was "one of the girls in town who sang about... middle of paper... ...y, but Glaspell told their personalities through the voices of other characters. Gently integrating male chauvinism into various scenes and actions in the play, Glaspell showed the then existing male dominance and challenged readers and viewers to question who is really guilty of the murder, Minnie Foster or the dominant male society! Glaspell also indicated that by falsifying the evidence, the female characters not only concluded that Minnie was not guilty of the crime, but also psychologically triumphed over their male counterparts. Works cited by Bryan, Patricia L. and Thomas Wolf. Midnight Assassin: a murder in the heart of America. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2005. xii-xiii. Web. Glaspell, Susan. “Trifles. » Norton's Introduction to Literature. Ed. Alison Booth and Kelly J. Mays. 10th ed. New York: Norton, 2010. 1385-94. Print.