Sister Love The play titled "Trifles", by Susan Glaspell, begins as a murder mystery that turns into a drama as the story unfolds. The story focuses on the investigation of a murder that occurred on a farm. The detectives, who are all men, are on the farm looking for forensic evidence that can help them solve the murder. The wives of two detectives are there to retrieve personal items for the victim's wife. Mrs Wright, who is the victim's wife, is in prison as the main suspect in her husband's murder. When the story begins, all the characters are in the kitchen busy chatting. One of the investigators criticizes the state of the kitchen, complaining that it is dirty and disorganized. The women, who are also housewives, empathize with Mrs. Wright and defend her cooking by reminding the investigator that housework on a farm is not easy. Throughout the story, men constantly make stereotypical statements against women and Mrs. Wright. This article will analyze male dominance and the effect it has had on female characters. More specifically it will examine how the female characters were forced to develop an intimate bond and how they formed a form of unexpressed communication to combat the patriarchy displayed by the male characters. At the beginning of the show all the characters are in the farmhouse kitchen. . The men discuss a strategy on how to proceed in gathering evidence, while the women stand silently together by the door. While the men talk, the lawyer (one of the investigators) opens a cupboard door and one of the women notices that Mrs. Wright's fruit has frozen due to the cold. Men immediately ridicule women for caring about...... middle of paper ......real, silent understanding. Works Cited Franzwa, Gregg and Lockhart, Charles. “Social Origins and the Maintenance of Gender: Communication Styles, Personality Types, and Grid Group Theory.” Sociological Perspectives 41.1 (1998): 185-208. JSTOR. Network. April 21, 2014. Hunt, Lester H. “Sentiment and Sympathy.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 62.4 (2004): 339-354. JSTOR. Network. April 25, 2014.Manju. “From Suppression to Self-Realization: A Study of Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence.” Language in India March 2014: 233+. Academic OneFile. Network. April 26, 2014. Nadesan, Majia Holmer. “Gender and temporality in interpersonal systems.” Symbolic Interaction 20.1 (1997): 21-43. JSTOR. Network. 29 April 2014. Pollock, Linda A. “Pregnancy and Female Bonding in Modern England.” Social History 22.3 (1997): 286-306. JSTOR. Network. April 21 2014.