The document summarizes the play "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell. It describes how the female characters Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters discover a dead canary with its neck wrung while searching the house of a woman named Minnie who is accused of killing her husband. This discovery implies that Minnie's husband killed the canary, representing his control over his wife. Though the men dismiss women's concerns as "trifles", Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters decide not to tell the men about this important clue, resolving to keep this trifle to themselves.