Quote Response #7--Trifles

For my lit class I needed to read a short play by Susan Glaspell called Trifles. I enjoyed the play and also found it very intriguing. I liked that the women were on their own little mission and ended up finding more than the men did. One part I particularly found interesting was when the women found the bird. Mrs. Hale: "But, Mrs. Peters--look at it! It's neck! Look at its neck! Its all--other side too." Mrs. Peters: "Somebody--wrung--its--neck." I still have figured out what "other side too" means and I'm a little lost as to why John Wright would have killed the bird. Was it to make his wife upset? Did he not want her to be happy, so that is why Minnie Foster killed her husband? I just feel like there are many questions that haven't been answered. And then another quote I found interesting was (when they are explaining the events in the play): "Suddenly Mrs. Peters throws back quilt pieces and tried to put the box in the bag she is wearing. It is too big. She opens the box, starts to take the bird out, cannot touch it, goes to pieces, stands there helpless. Sound of a knob turning in the other room. Mrs. Hale snatches the box and puts it in the pocket of her big coat." Why did the women feel that it was necessary to take the dead bird? Are they going to bury it or take it to Minne Foster in jail? I'm not quite sure what the significance of the bird is, but I find it very interesting that the women would not let it go.