The plot is about an investigation of a woman who is a suspect for the murder of John Wright (her husband). The setting is in the house where the murder took place.
Throughout the story the men are trying to get evidence to see why Mrs. Wright would kill her own husband, but they could not find any rope or any reason for her to kill him. Meanwhile the wives seem unphased by the murder and are concerned about "trifles" (little, unimportant and irrelevant things). When the men come back from looking for evidence in the barn they find the women talking about whether Mrs. Wright was going to "quilt or knot" a quilt and felt that it was funny that during a murder investigation the women were talking about little things.
In the end the women found out why Mrs. Wright killed her husband because of their deep attention to "trifles." And they hid the evidence because they felt empathetic towards her.
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