1. Setting
1.1. Abandoned, freezing cold farmhouse, in Dickson County, with the kitchen that has signs of incompleted work. It was also described by Mrs Hale as a lonesome place that was down in a hollow unable to see the road.
1.2. The kitchen is the main place where the one-act play is taken place. Mrs Peters and Mrs Hale are the characters who sit there waiting for the men to search the house while talking about Mrs and Mr Wright.
1.2.1. The kitchen is described as gloomy, left without having put things in order. The table of the kitchen has one half of which is clean, and the other half messy. There were dirty towels, a loaf of bread outside of the bread-box, and fruits in a bad state, which was actually odd for a woman to have a kitchen like that at that time.
1.3. Another important place is the living room, where Mr Hale finds Mrs Wright in the chair in a queer way. And so, it is where the story starts to develop.
1.4. The bedroom upstairs is where John Wright was killed. The County Attorney and the Sheriff while searching for evidence went especially there but found nothing. Then, they tried the barn and still found nothing.
1.4.1. The men could not realize they had to search in the kitchen because they thought there was "nothing but kitchen things." Being mislead by trifles, they missed important evidence.
2. Significant objects
2.1. Apron
2.1.1. Mrs Wright was pleating it while rocking in the chair the night his husband died.
2.2. Shawl
2.2.1. The woman in jail asked Mrs Peters to take her apron and shawl, Mrs Peters does not understand why would she want those things, but she supposes that maybe it is"just to make her feel more natural."
2.3. Rope
2.3.1. John Wright died suffocated by a rope around his neck. His way of dying represents how he used to suffocate his wife in life, like when he wouldn't let her sing, or have a bird.
2.4. Jars and fruits
2.4.1. The women notice about the state of these objects and worry because they feel empathy for the farm woman's hard work. Whereas the men think they are worrying about "trifles".
2.5. Quilt
2.5.1. The women realize that Mrs Wright was piecing a quilt with a log cabin pattern, and wonder if she was going to quilt it or knot it. As trifle as it may look, at least for the men, it made the women realize that Mrs Wright was having a hard time, she was nervous, only due to some stitches that were not sewed very good.
2.6. Bird-cage
2.6.1. They find a bird-cage, which seemed odd because there was no bird in it. Also, its door was broke, one hinge was pulled apart. This is a hint that it was most probably broken by John Wright in an act of violence.
2.7. Bird
2.7.1. It was found wrapped up in a pretty box, presumably by Mrs Wright. This bird represents herself in some way; she is compared with it by Mrs. Hale: "she was kind of like a bird herself- real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and - fluttery."
2.7.2. The bird reminds Minnie of the miserable life she is living. The bird is not allowed to sing as she isn't. The bird lives jailed in a cage, as she does.
2.7.3. It also represents an eye for an eye in the way that John died in the same way as the bird, with its neck knotted.