Susan Glaspell's play Trifles explores male-female relationships through the investigation of the murder of Mr. Wright's character. It also talks about the stereotypes that women have faced. The play takes place on Wright's country farm as the men in the play, the county attorney, the sheriff, and Mr. Hale, search for evidence about the identity and, more importantly, the motive of the killer. The lawyer, intending to prove that Mrs. Wright had strangled her husband to death, was questioning Mr. Hale about what he had seen when he entered the house. The women, however, were only there to get clothes for the wife who was in prison accused of murdering her husband. However, the clues that would lead them to the answer are never found by the men. Instead it is their female counterparts who discover the necessary evidence, but choose not to tell the men what they found since the man was humiliating them the entire time. After searching the house several times, two men decide to stop and leave while the lawyer stays behind to find any kind of clue that could convict Mrs. Wright of the murder. Women hide all the evidence they find, thus taking revenge on men for all the stereotypical and degrading comments they have said. Thus allowing the lawyer to attempt to find his own evidence and end the game. Gaspell's work represents the misjudgments and stereotypes that women have faced and how they have dealt with those issues. Men's one-sided view of women prevents them from finding the key evidence they need. The male detectives must find, as Mrs. Peters says, "'a motive; something to show anger, or . . . sudden feeling'" (357). Yet the men never see the ragged seam on a q... in the center of the paper... they say, "But you know the jury when it comes to women" (1316). The county attorney is implying that no jury would ever think that a woman would be capable of killing a man, let alone devising a plan to kill him. Women were just stuck in the stereotype and just had to accept it. Women did not respond to men due to the fear of being hit or even beaten by men. This is why they stood there and let the men say what they wanted. In conclusion, men's prejudices against women make them weak against Minnie. Women know this; they are intelligent, depicted as much smarter than men. The men were punished for their mistreatment of the women by failing to find the evidence that would have convicted Minnie. They underestimated the women and in the end it was the women who prevailed.