What attitudes towards women do the sheriff and the county attorney express? The Sheriff and County Attorney looked down on the women and belittled them at every opportunity. The men are condescending to the women. Their light-hearted banter is heavily couched in sexist remarks.
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Jun 21, 2013 · Answers 1. Add Yours. Answered by jill d #170087 8 years ago 6/21/2013 12:21 PM. The Sheriff and County Attorney looked down on the women and belittled them at every opportunity. As for the women, they didn't cater to the men or their demeaning behavior; they had a comeback for every comment. Source (s)
May 14, 2016 · The Sheriff and County Attorney looked down on the women and belittled them at every opportunity. The men are condescending to the women. Their light-hearted banter is heavily couched in sexist remarks.
Jan 27, 2016 · a. The Sheriff and the County Attorney always seem to find a way to criticize and disregard the women’s opinions. The women do not like the way the men are treating them. Mrs. Hale says, “I’d hate to have men coming into my kitchen, …
Hale and Mrs. Peters react to these sentiments? They were belittling towards the women by making a comment on a conversation the women were having about fruit. They commented that women always worry over non-significant things.
While the sheriff and the county attorney search the Wright property for evidence, Mrs. Hale and the sheriff's wife discover clues to the murder among trivial items they find in the kitchen. Mrs. Peters: Wife of the sheriff.
The men see the dirty, gloomy kitchen as a sign that Mrs. Wright was a bad housekeeper, which in their mind translates to her being a bad woman in general.
Henry PetersHenry Peters, Sheriff in Trifles.
The birdcage represents how Mrs. Wright was trapped in her marriage, and could not escape it. The birdcage door is broken which represents her broken marriage to Mr. Wright.
The quilt and Minnie's decision to finish it in one of two styles—quilting or knotting—is developed as a metaphor for her innocence or her guilt. The act of knotting a quilt is linked to the act of killing a man with a rope around his neck.
The main themes in Trifles are gender, isolation, and justice. Gender: the male characters only want to gather evidence of Minnie's crime, whereas the women come to understand the emotional pain that drove Minnie to murder her husband.
George Anderson found a dirty towel in Minnie Wright's kitchen. He used this object to accuse her of being a very poor housekeeper. The clutter of Minnie's kitchen is used as a representation of her life and distressed mind.