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Thematic statement for "Love In L.A.": Superficiality and deception might help for a few moments, but life consists of more than just a few instances. 

"Trifles" 

Throughout the beginning of the play as Mr. Hale is explaining to the the Sheriff and the County Attorney about what had happened when he found out that Mr. Wright was dead seems to be the exposition of the play because basically all that is happening is a description of what he saw and experienced. After Mr. Hale finishes with his description of the occurred, when  the investigation actually starts is when the rising action begins to take place. I don't think that rising action is correlated to the men, due to the fact that we don't see much of what is going on with their investigation. I think that the rising action has more association with the women, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale. They begin discussing the murder when Mrs. Hale asks Mrs. Peters "Do you think she did it?" During this time we seem to get more into detail about the surroundings which in turn might give us an insight on what kind of person Mrs. Wright was. From everything the women discuss we can begin to make decisions of whether Mrs. Wright murdered her husband or not. As they continue discussing Mrs. Wright the climax seems to take place when the women find the box with the dead bird in it. Mrs. Hale: "There's something wrapped in this piece of silk". Mrs. Peters: "It's the bird". Mrs. Hale: "But, Mrs. Peters -- look at it! It's neck! Look at its neck! It's all -- other side to." This might have been incriminating evidence to the Sheriff and the County Attorney. The reader at this point might draw a parallel between the bird and Mr. Wright (cause of death), but as the women talk about the incident they seem to be confused. This might in turn confuse the reader. The falling action seems to take place after the men go up once more to look for more evidence after coming down and asking about the quilt. The women discuss what it's like not having children, absence, stillness, and they seem to think Mr. Wright was the one who killed the bird. In the play there really is no resolution. It really depends on the reader to decide whether Mrs. Wright was the murderer, and if so why she did it. Maybe the closest thing to a resolution is that maybe Mr. Wright killed Mrs. Wright's canary and it hurt her much more than it should have so she killed him. However, since this is not actually stated we can't know for sure. It all just ends in simple talk with the County Attorney saying "Well, Henry, at least we found out that she was not going to quilt it. She was going to -- what is it you call it, ladies? and Mrs Hale responding "We call it -- knot it, Mr. Henderson."