Little Trifles Add Up to a Big Case Detectives are always looking for little pieces of evidence when investigating a crime. After all, it is this evidence that can turn a trial around, whether be it for the good or bad. This is especially the case in Susan Glaspell's Trifles. When Mrs. Hale comes across little pieces of evidence, she passes them off as being "trifles", hiding them from the detective. She is the sole …showed first 75 words of 905 total…

…showed last 75 words of 905 total…and figure out what was really going on. Whether or not Mrs. Hale killed John Wright for Mrs. Wright, we will never know. But the fact remains that Mrs. Hale severely deceives everyone in the play, but she is seen as a harmless homemaker, which is precisely why her plan works. Works Cited DiYanni, Robert, ed. Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay. 4th ed. New York: McGraw - Hill, 1998. Glaspell, Susan. Trifles: (1119 - 1128).