Blurred Borders in Trifles In her landmark feminist work, "Trifles," Susan Glaspell offers a glimpse into the complicated political and social systems that have silenced and divided women during the their fight for equality with men. In this simple but highly symbolic tale, a farmer's wife, Minnie Wright, is accused of strangling her husband to death. The county attorney, the sheriff, a local farmer, the sheriff's wife, and the farmer's wife visit Minnie's farm. While the men "look for clues," the women examine Minnie's home environment. While the men scoff at the women's interest in what they call "nonsense," the women discover Minnie's strangled cock to realize that Minnie's husband had killed the cock and Minnie, in turn, had killed. They bond in recognizing that women “go through all the same things: it's just a different kind of the same thing” (1076). As their horror grows and the women reveal the murder, they agree to cooperate with each other, conspiring to protect Minnie from the men by hiding the incriminating "evidence". Women's slow reluctance to cooperate within the class even in the face of male oppression, as depicted in Glaspell's work, symbolizes the difficulty women had in creating a united "interclass sisterhood" when fighting for suffrage during the Golden Age. This class conflict was exacerbated by the socioeconomic dynamics of the time. Middle-class women often employed working-class women in their homes as servants. Employing women at supposedly oppressive wages in their “private lives,” while at the same time fighting for the economic freedom of all women in their “public lives,” has placed middle-class women in a hypocritical bind. As historian Lois Banner reports, "In the 1900s and 1910s there was a wave of writing on the so-called problem of servants – the shortage of women willing to work as cooks and maids... It wasn't simply that they [servants] they had to be paid for long hours and were not well paid; The control that middle-class women gave to their domestic workers extended to a broader picture; much of the work of middle-class clubs focused on "reforming" working-class women. The imposition of middle-class values ​​on the lives of working-class and black women has alienated these women, making the feeling of sisterhood necessary for solidarity nearly impossible. As historian Nancy Hewitt explains, "When 'real women' [i.