2. How does Glaspell characterize the men in the play? The sheriff? The attorney? The Neighboring farmer? What attitudes toward women do the men display?

3. How does Glaspell enlist our sympathy for the women? How do Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters get along with the men?

4. Which of the stage props are most important for the dramatic action of the play? For its theme? Why?

5. What relation to the plot does the setting have? How is it symbolic?

6. The introduction to Glaspell speaks of the women "reading" social texts, that is gleaning meanings. What "texts" do the women "read" and what meanings do they elicit from them?

7. At what point in reading Trifles did you realize that Mrs. Wright had murdered her husband? What provided the final clue?