Minne Wright is Guilty
The opening setting in "Trifles" is described thus: "The kitchen in the now abandoned farmhouse of John Wright, a gloomy kitchen, and left without having been put in order..." Minnie Wright, the housewife, was married to John and is presently accused of his murder. Present in the room are the County Attorney (Sheriff) and Hale. Both men are in middle life, the County Attorney is a young man. The Sheriff's wife, Mrs. Peters, is a slightly small woman, with a thin nervous face. Mrs. Hale is larger and would ordinarily be called more comfortable looking, but she is disturbed now and looks fearfully about as she enters. Minnie Wright is guilty of killing her husband. She killed him because John killed her only friend. John was a very cold man. Minnie killed John because she was sick of the way he was treating her. They were married for more than twenty something years.
I conclude that she has already paid the price for the crime she committed. She lived with John for over twenty years, under all the stress and abuse. After marrying John, she became withdrawn. Mrs. Hale said she was "lonesome" and wishes she had visited Minne more often. Also, as I stated above Minne was distraught and incoherent. We see this in the way she kept the house and her apparent lack of care about her husband's death. So I say that was payment enough. Minnie likely killed John in the same way he killed her pet. This was her only way of avenging her pet's death. She strangled him by putting a rope around his neck, choking him to death, in the same manner in which he twisted the bird's neck. John Wright was described as a cold man. Mrs. Hale described him as a hard man (559), "like a raw wind that gets to the bone". Mrs. Hale suspects that he killed
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