In the short story "Trifles", Susan Glaspell uses objects and locations to create a mood of isolation, confinement. This also foreshadows Minnie's eruption of pent up rage which resulted in the murder of her husband. The story narrates the murder scenario of John Wright, who was supposedly murdered by his wife Minnie Wright. The women discover Minnie Wright's only joy in life, her canary, with its neck wrung and put inside a pretty box. The women felt that the death of her precious canary caused Minnie to kill her husband out of rage. After hearing why John Wright was murdered the reader feels pity towards Minnie for the isolation and loneliness she felt. The mood of isolation, confinement, and the freeing of bottled up anger is represented through, the jar of cherries, the dead, and the cage where the canary was held.

The jar of cherries that Minnie...