Characterize the men

In contrast to the women, who are circumspect, deliberative, intuitive, and sensitive, the men tend to be aggressive, brash, rough, analytical and self-centered. When the group enters the Wright farmhouse at the beginning of the play, the men stomp through the door and head purposefully toward the stove for warmth, where they get to business immediately.

The women, however, seem to sense the gloom and terror in the house, and their entrance is timid. As characters, they are identified by their husband's roles, but as their husbands search out obvious clues, the women rise to Minnie's defense.
Where the men are unable to see or hear obvious clues, the women determine the truth....... that John Wright drove his wife to murder him by isolating her from her friends and depriving her of beauty and song. The "trifles" of the play embody the possessive, patronizing attitude men sometimes have toward the lives of women.