The County Attorney also comes with cynical expression toward the women. He seems arrogant to talk about the women with such a cynical
expression. He is neither talking in a high voice nor saying bad words but he looks down upon the women by his action and his satire words. From this, we can take
the point that County Attorney as a man considers that all the household duties should be done by women. He indirectly blames the women for the dirty kitchen.
COUNTY ATTORNEY: with the gallantry of a young politician And yet, for all their worries, what would we do without the
ladies? the women do not unbend. He goes to the sink, takes a dipperful of water from the pail and pouring it into a basin,
washes his hands. Starts to wipe them on the roller-towel, turns it for a cleaner place
Dirty towelskicks his foot against the pans under the sink
Not much of a housekeeper, would you say, ladies? lines: 110-115
In the stage drection above County Attorney seems so arrogant. He act like a boss trying to give an example of the things that should be done by women by pouring
the water in a dipper. He also kicks the pans under the sink. He shows his power in this part. The arrogancy shows more of his underestimation toward women.
B. The Plot of Trifles
Plot is group of events which occur in the story. It can be called the back bone. It controls the flow and also arise reader’s emotion by serving a life like
story. The collection of events can go back and fro based on the timing of events told in the story.
In Trifles the plot can be defined to the beginning of the story which gives the reader a general situation and characters knowledge. Then in the middle of the
plot, the conflict is arising. It is possible to have many conflicts in a story. The PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
conflicts later will finally reach the climax in a central conflict which is the turning point of action and characters development. It is where the changes of
character shown and the main idea of the story arisen. After that at the end will there will come a solution, a feedback given by the characters to the conflict. This
is an answer of the question which has become the reason why the story is written.
1. Exposition
In the exposition of Trifles readers are given the setting of the kitchen, the character of the play, and begin with the gestures of the characters entering the
house of Minnie Foster. First, there is the description of the kitchen of Minnie Foster. It is said that the Kitchen is gloomy, left without having been put in order.
There are unwashed pans under the sink, a loaf of bread outside the bread-box, a dish towel on the table, and also other unfinished work. From that description the
readers will feel the bad feeling, nerves, and confusion. After that there are some descriptions of the characters and what they do in the kitchen.
[The kitchen in the now abandoned farmhouse of JOHN WRIGHT, a gloomy kitchen, and left without having been put in order—unwashed
pans under the sink, a loaf of bread outside the bread-box, a dish-towel on the table—other signs of incompleted work. At the rear the outer door
opens and the SHERIFF comes in followed by the COUNTY ATTORNEY and HALE. The SHERIFF and HALE are men in middle
life, the COUNTY ATTORNEY is a young man; all are much bundled up and go at once to the stove. They are followed by the two women—the
SHERIFFs wife first; she is a slight wiry woman, a thin nervous face. MRS HALE is larger and would ordinarily be called more comfortable
looking, but she is disturbed now and looks fearfully about as she enters. The women have come in slowly, and stand close together near the door.]
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There are some dialogues from each character that give the readers an impression about their personality. They talked about what is happening yesterday
in that house and how the murder can be happened. In this part the exposition of the story can be seen. Here we can conclude that the people coming there are the
Sheriff, County Attorney, Mrs. Peters, Mr. Hale, and Mrs. Hale. There COUNTY ATTORNEY: rubbing his hands This feels good. Come up to
the fire, ladies. MRS PETERS: after taking a step forward Im not—cold.
SHERIFF: unbuttoning his overcoat and stepping away from the stove as if to mark the beginning of official business Now, Mr. Hale,
before we move things about, you explain to Mr. Henderson just what you saw when you came here yesterday morning.
COUNTY ATTORNEY: By the way, has anything been moved? Are things just as you left them yesterday? lines:13-19
They talked about what was happening yesterday in that house and how the murder could happen. In this part the reader can know further about the
characters. What their role and position are. From this exposition we can derived that man is so dominant to lead the women and start investigation. The women are
beholden as a follower and seem weak because of much sarcasm that is thrown by the men.
The male characters make fun of the women because of what they do. When the women worry about preserves the men just laugh and this give an
impression of the higher position of the men. It is not straightly stated but pragmatically the words that are speaking by the men said how the stupid was the
women. The men also focus on the bad thing in the kitchen. When they see the dirty towels, and unwashed sink, they blame the women for not doing the thing
