When a person goes through a traumatizing event in their life, they can choose to accept what happened and move on positively from the experience or deal with it negatively. In “Trifles,” by Susan Glaspel, Mrs. Wright copes with the death of her pet bird by, from what we can gather from the text, killing her husband? Mr. Wright. In “Trifles” even though males are dominant in society, the female characters in the story, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, see them as fools. The fools driving the story are three males: the sheriff, the county attorney, and Hale. What causes these males to be labeled foolish is their apparent blindness to the fact that, during this time period, male dominance was considered normal and females were expected to submit to their husbands. According to the New York Times, males are “blinded by ignorance and insensitivity” (New York Times Review). Males in this time period being ignorant and insensitive towards their wives shows their character and only increases their attitude towards women. This also shows why these males are so foolish because they assume that their women should submit to them, yet they can be ignorant and insensitive towards them. The writer Henry James said that no story “is possible without its fools” (387). The three male characters, however, do not realize that their stupid ways are what drive the scenes and motivate 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 text's sidenotes, group phones are “a group line in which multiple families each have single-line extensions, a common agreement in the beginning… middle of the paper… They were the smart ones, in reality they were the fools. Women may have remained true to their roles in society, but they did not play the roles within themselves. Instead, they worked together and proved to themselves that they could outwit the males and, for once, not be the fool and be the dominant one, above all else, by uncovering the motives and solving Mr. Wright's murder . They went so far as to defend their gender and hide evidence to protect Mrs. Wright. Regardless of whether the males intended to be these ignorant and irrational people, their actions and attitudes towards women, especially towards their wives, added to their foolishness. Males have retained their role in society as well as women and males have proven to be dominant in their own ways and in their own minds, but still blind and foolish.