The play's Trifles and Suppressed Desires wrap around a central theme of sexual tension between women and men. The characters are in search of life's meaning and seeking self-definition. In Trifles, ignorance of sexism is exposed as a major theme. The play Suppressed Desires explores new feminist theories between a married couple. Both plays were written in the 1920's way before the women's movement began But this traditional way of thinking has surprisingly continued even …showed first 75 words of 1902 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1902 total…the time. Trifles expressed more of a drastic role that women are expected to play in society and the harm that it brings not only to the women but to the men as well. Suppressed Desires shows a wife obsessed with psychoanalyses and shows how it drives her husband crazy. Both plays center around women and their search to define themselves. The characters demonstrate an awareness of the way their genders place them in society.