Trifles.. :)

Seat No. 5

BAYONA, JENI D.

WR : TRIFLES

Who:  The victim was John Wright, the farmer and the perpetrator was Minnie Foster, the wife of the farmer.

What: The victim was found dead.

When: He was found dead the next morning.

Where: The victim was found dead in their bedroom.

How: He was found dead with a rope slipped on his neck that strangled him to death.

My verdict is that the wife is guilty of killing his husband.

Why:

The motive of the wife, Minnie Foster, to kill his husband, John Wright, was that she had enough of the cold and cruel life that her husband has given her. Considering the fact that they do not even have any child that cotributes to the loneliness of the couple’s life, the wife was as if she already suffered enough and has endured a lot of time already with him and this terrible life should already end. In the story, before Minnie Foster met John Wright and before they have married each other, she was a singer. She had a life that was very colorful and it has all vanished after the wedding day. It was her life back then, but, Mr. Wright took it away.  Another manifestation of the fact that her husband took away her happiness is when he kiled the bird. As what Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peter said, her life before was relived by the bird. It reflected who she was and by the time of her married life, it was the only thing left for her as a memory that somehow in her past, she has lived a colourful life and that there was real happiness whenever she sings. It was all that’s left to her that reminds her of her youth, but, her own husband even took it away. And because of this, she had resorted to killing his husband since she has no life anymore. Maybe not literally, but figuratively, her life has gone with the death of the bird.