Pondering on "Trifles"

The vastly different interpretations by the women and the men in Gaspell’s “Trifles” was fascinating to me as I read. The trivial everyday items that the men view as insignificant are the most important. It is those “trifles” that the women are able to translate from the physical (crooked sewing) into an understanding of the cold, unhappy world that Mrs. Wright was subject to. This understanding that the women seem to have of Mrs. Wright spoke to me as a kind of universal language that connected the women together. For example, Mrs. Peters is able to understand and connect to Mrs. Wright on a deeply personal level with her understanding of loss: “I know what stillness is” (1974). Mrs. Peters admits that prior to the events of the play she has no personal connection or knowledge of Mrs. Wright, yet it is through her interpretation of Mrs. Wright’s life through the “trifles” in her house that allows her to form this connection. So, do you all believe that there is such a thing as a subconscious universal language that forms from ones experiences that connects individuals together?