The play Trifles was written by Susan Glaspell in 1916. It reflects the author's assimilation with culturally bound views of gender and sexual roles. Like the title of the work, “Trifles,” it evokes women's concerns that are often considered trivialities—insignificant topics—that have little or no significance to the real work of society which, evidently, is done by men. Glaspell (Susan Glaspell 1902) questions, and therefore invites the viewer or reader to question, the comparative value of the work and perspectives of men and women by introducing a tense drama that extends the development of two different accounts, one female and one male . Holstein (Suzy Clarkson Holstein 2003) argues in her essay, although the question that Glaspell (Susan Glaspell 1902) raises is not only about the role of women in society, but also about how knowledge and perspective are valued in specific circumstances. Holstein (Suzy Clarkson Holstein 2003) argues that Trifles's two corresponding accounts are based on “differences in [the perceptions and behaviors of men and women as they are] rooted in domestic space” (p. 282). Furthermore, Holstein (Suzy Clarkson Holstein 2003) showed that the men in the play approach Wright's house, where Mr. Wright was found dead, as a crime scene, while the women who escort them during the investigation approach the house like a home. Holstein (Suzy Clarkson Holstein 2003) established that women and men have two very different reasons for being there: the men, to carry out their duties as legal professionals, the women, to organize various belongings to bring to the detained Mrs. Wright. . Yet she argues that in Susan Glaspell's Trifles the fact that the mutability of their motivations is firm, on the part of men, a... means of paper... above all, that they construct a credible narrative motivated by such evidence. Then, because they can sympathize with Mrs. Wright's distress, they come to the decision - promptly and without far-reaching controversy - that they must cover up her offense; in fact, they believe his actions have been vindicated. Distinctly, the county attorney and the sheriff would take the law and their positions within it differently; once again, this is not essentially due to their gender, but to their professional perspectives and their habitual behavior of seeing and knowing. Works Cited Clarkson Holstein, Suzy. (2003). Silent Justice in a Different Key: Glaspell's Nonsense. The Midwest Quarterly 44 (pp. 282-290). Glaspell, Susan. (2003). Trifles. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Shorter 6th ed. Ed. Nina Baym. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1893-1903.