They are treated as if they were the property of men only to serve them and make them happy. Mr. Hale even goes so far as to state, “Well, women are used to worrying about trifles” (3). He makes this comment after Mrs. Peters expresses the significance of the exploding fruit preserve jars. With this comment he expresses his belief that women lack the common sense and concentration to pay attention to important details but that he will forgive them because they are used to worrying only about unimportant things. His words imply that he not only believes that women work for nonsense, but that it is nonsense. By reading Trifles you can immediately determine what the role of women is in this period and what men think about it. Women are expected to cook, bake, do housework, and care for children and husbands, and their identities are determined by their husbands. For example, the term the lawyer uses, “a sheriff's wife is married to the law” (5). It shows that she is not an independent woman but tied to what her husband