In Susan Glaspell, Trifles, Mrs. Wright is portrayed in many different ways. Mrs. Wright becomes real by the symbols found in her home. The canary, broken bird cage and the cherry preserves help resemble how emotional and disturbed Mrs. Wright was.
             Mrs. Wright was a typical woman at home; she kept up with her house duties and attended to her husbands needs. She spent her time preserving fruit. While being held in jail she requested for Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale to check on her preserves. Why was she so concern about her fruit preserves? The only preserves they found were the cherry preserves. The symbolic of the preserves had to do how she was preserving herself for her husband. She didn't have any children and was preserving herself for thirty years. She choose cherry because cherry is vulgar for hymen. The women started to view the preserves as a meaning in her marriage. It seemed that she wanted children so she was preserving herself; and her husband didn't want what she wanted. The jar of cherry preserves revealed what she was preserving; her eggs. The symbol seemed to describe how loyal Mrs. Wright was. She was loyal to her marriage, even if Mr. Wright didn't fulfill her desire. The only problem was that she was kept at home trapped like the preserves in a jar. Her life was empty in the cold house. Mr. Wright wanted no noise, so he made the decision for not giving her any children. In result the meaning of the cherry preserves was that she was still a virgin before they got married. She thought that she was marring Mr. Right. She was faithful to him, but Mr. Wright didn't fulfill her life like she really wanted. As the women found the jars, they saw how the jars were destroyed by the cold. Mr. Wright was cold to Mrs. Wright, and the coldness destroyed the jars. Just like the coldness destroyed her spirit.
             As the women were looking around for evidence, they found
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