Question

what is the point of the women's concern about the quilt and whether Mrs. wright was going to quilt it or knot it? ”Trifles” story Discussion.

Answer 1

Mrs. Hale's certainty that she was going to “knot it” symbolizes the women's certainty that Minnie killed her husband. Meanwhile, the men, blinded by their arrogant inability to see the women's interest as anything but trifles, don't catch this significance at all and still think Mrs. Hale is talking about a quilt.

Hale and Mrs. Peters hide the evidence is that they empathize with Mrs. Wright and feel obligated to protect a fellow woman. ... They also hide the evidence because they fear the men will dismiss their findings as insignificant "trifles."