Trifles on "Trifles"

As I started to read Glaspell's play, "Trifles", I realized I had read and enjoyed this play a few years ago in another English class.  In particular I was intrigued by how the men belittled the women for worrying over trifles and patronized them, for instance, when the County Attorney stated, "And for all their worries, what would we do without the ladies?" (Glaspell 1970), as he completely bypassed relevant clues.  He sardonically in essence patted them on the head while insinuating that since they were women, emotional and unintelligent beings, their worries could be excused as they were too simple to realize the error in their ways.  The men continue on with their over talking and over thinking and in their assumed superiority, completely miss the "trifles" that designate what actually happened.  I also loved how masterfully Glaspell wound in the stick together attitude that women tend to have without making them seem anything but incredibly intelligent in their decisions.  These women understood how a cruel and cold man can wound the soul of a good woman to the point where her heart dies inside of her and feeling ceases to exist for him.  When the song was crushed from within her with what I am assuming was his order not to sing, his killing of her canary, the only song she had left, pushed her over the limits of what she could handle.  The men in the play, so consumed by the whodunit, completely miss important clues such as Mrs. Wright's lost will to take care of his home with the discovery of the dirty towels.  Being men actually impedes THEM  as all the while they are assuming that the women are the weaker sex.  The women pick up on these details, the fruit freezing because she did not have the will to bring them in, the house being disheveled and finally the broken cage and the tiny bird lovingly wrapped in ribbon and placed in a box that Mrs. Wright treasured- her sewing box.  She loved the little bird so, she could not part with it even in death, but she could bring that same state upon her husband.  He took her life away figuratively, so she took his away literally.  Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters however, completely understand the loss of self and in that, decide to protect Mrs. Wright to a point, though Mrs. Peters still maintains that a crime deserves punishment.  We are not granted Glaspell's actual ending, but the tone of the piece suggests that Mrs. Wright will likely not fair well, that is, if the men can ever put together the trifles that make their case.