Discussion 250-350 words When I read “Trifles,” I find the notion of keeping a secret as the basis for power overwhelming.

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When I read “Trifles,” I find the notion of keeping a secret as the basis for power overwhelming. Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale do not intend, as far as I can tell, to disrupt an investigation. They do not necessarily want to obstruct justice.

What I find odd is how the attorney, sheriff, and Mr. Hale must have discounted the women as subjects if they allowed them into the crime scene. For the men, the scene of the crime was the locus of the corpus, not the kitchen, where anyway nothing worthy of attention might be found.

So long as the sewing box is shut, so long as Song is robed, so long as Nora plays her game behind Helmer’s back, the characters who hide their actions or themselves have considerable power. Why? What gives them that power, and what is it power to do exactly?