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cage and so manyother trifles. While the men were going about business and beingobjective, the women were looking over what Mrs. Wright left behindand subjectively trying to understand what happened. When gatheringup the quilting material, they discovered a fancy little
box.Inside, wrapped in silk was a dead canary with its neck been wrung.The women realized the implication that Mrs. Wright’s husband didnot like the canary’s beautiful song (a symbol of his wife’s desirefor freedom and happiness). So Mr. Wright busted the cage door andstrangled the bird. As a sympathy for Mrs. Wright and defiance fortheir husbands’ disappreciation, the two women decided to withholdthe evidence. They don not tell the men about their discovery.Instead, Mrs. Hale put the box with the deceased bird into her coatpocket resolving not to tell the men about this little “trifle”they have discovered, which is the climax for the plot. Theresolution and the denouement is pretty unexpected that the womenhid the crime evidence rather than putting Mrs. Wright guilty bytelling their husbands the discovery. The events in the plot arerealistic and all events happen not because of random chance butinevitably as women have been ignored and regarded