In the one-act play "Trifles," playwright Susan Glaspell shows the inferior position of women as well as their struggles for an independent identity in a patriarchal society. This piece takes place in the domestic sphere represented by the kitchen and embraces an important feminist subject according to oppression and female abilities during the early twentieth-century. Since the beginning of time the gendered roles place the woman in the kitchen, cooking and doing the chores while she was also expected to be a caretaker to her husband and a good mother to her children (Ferguson, p.6-12). Thus women were capable of doing these kinds of "trifles  in contrast to men who here are searching for hints in a murder case. Glaspell expresses with this play her anger about trivializing men, ironically showing their ignorance to the women's world while being blind running around and looking for clues, the women solve the mystery with the help of some "trifles." Mrs. Wright who is also known as Minnie Foster killed her husband to free herself from the birdcage of her marriage, which is a major metaphor of the play that will be discussed in the following. Minnie Wright embodies the view of the typical farmer housewife of that time who suffered the mental abuse from her husband and her lost identity. The empty birdcage, which is found by Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale while doing some "trifles  in the kitchen, gives some important hints regarding to "a reason for doing it" (Glaspell, p.262). In the first place a canary is bright in color and a small, sweetly singing finch. Nothing that would match with the solitary house as the Wrights had. It symbolizes many things that Minnie Foster has lost with her marriage to John Wright now living in her quiet farmer house without children. According to her hard man who oppresses her and couldn't empathize her joy of living, Minnie must have been a miserable and sadly silent life with John so she took up the bird just to pass the time with. "The canary's voice was to displace the silence of a coldly authoritarian husband and replace the sounds of the unborn children" (Makowsky, p.62). Since the bird