I think the play Trifles was especially intriguing because of the dynamics of the women and the men. Trifles being another semi-feminist drama, critiquing societies ideas of gender roles. The men disrespected and disregarded anything Minnie did as important even though they were considering Minnie as their prime suspect. The women, minding their own business and collecting things to bring Minnie, happen upon the pieces of the puzzle that solve the murder.
Then, the women choose to conceal the evidence (the dead bird) that would convict Minnie. The men, trumping around upstairs, never find any evidence that could convict Minnie. Had they not allowed the ideology that women are unimportant to cloud their judgment, they would've looked about Minnie's "womanly things" and located the evidence to convict her of the crime they were attempting to pin on her.
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