This document provides descriptions of the main characters in the play Trifles by Susan Glaspell. It summarizes the characters as follows: 1) Mrs. Wright is the main suspect in the murder of her husband John. She was once a happy singer but her marriage made her unhappy as John neglected her happiness and prevented her from singing. 2) John Wright was a local farmer and good man but also hard and neglected his wife's happiness. 3) Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters help investigate and feel sympathy for Mrs. Wright due to understanding her lonely life and neglect by her husband.

1. CHARACTERS IN
TRIFLES
NUR MAIZATUL AKMAL BINTI ABD MALIK
NUR ZAFRINA BINTI ZULKIFLI
NURUL SHAZWANI BINTI MOHD ROSDI

3. Mrs. Wright
• Minnie Foster
• happy
• lively girl who sang in the local choir
• married John Wright, her life became unhappy
• main suspect in her husband's murder

5. John Wright
• A local farmer
• he was a good, dutiful man,
• he was also a hard man and neglected his wife's
happiness.
• He paid little attention to his wife's opinions
• prevented her from singing.

6. MR HALE
• A very descriptive person
• Has a strong memory
• The first person to discover John Wright’s death
• Mrs. Hale’s husband
• Wright’s neighbour

7. Mrs. Hale
• The wife of the farmer Lewis Hale
• she is of a heavier build than Mrs. Peters
• She remembers Mrs. Wright as the young Minnie Foster
• she feels sorry for Mrs. Wright. Mrs. Hale regrets not
having come to visit Mrs. Wright to alleviate her cheerless
life.

8. Mrs. Peters
• A relative newcomer to the town who never knew Mrs.
Wright before John Wright married her
• Mrs. Peters is "a slight, wiry woman" with a "thin, nervous
face."
• She is married to the sheriff and prefers to follow the law
• Mrs. Peters understands loneliness and the world of the
female domestic.

9. Lewis Hale
• A neighbouring farmer
• He had entered the Wright farmhouse to ask John
about acquiring a telephone, only to find a
strangled man and a wife acting very bizarrely.
• He says, "Women are used to worrying about
trifles."

10. Henry Peters
• The middle-aged local sheriff and husband
of Mrs. Peters, he is at John Wright's house
to examine the scene of the crime.
• Like Henderson, he gently teases the women
about their interest in Mrs. Wright's quilt.

11. George Henderson
• The county attorney
• he has been called to investigate the murder of John
Wright
• He is young and professional in manner
• he often dismisses the female interest in minor details
of domesticity

15. reference
• Wang, Bella. Chazelle, Damien ed. "Trifles Characters". GradeSaver, 31
August 2009 Web. 17 January 2015.