before we're through she may have something more serious than preserves to worry about.

The County Attorney is also critical that the kitchen towel is dirty, but the dirt on the towel (Mrs. Hale reminds) is from Mr. Wright's dirty hands, not Mrs. Wright. And yet the County Attorney is quick to criticize the absent Mrs. Wright. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters immediately indicate their resentment in the way they physically draw together, and by their defense of Mrs. Wright:

There's a great deal of work to be done on a farm.

The County Attorney either doesn't work on a farm, does not care, or both. He goes on to criticize Mrs. Wright's inability to make the house a more cheerful place, but does not think to consider that a great deal of what he sees is John Wright's responsibility. The man criticizes only the woman. And while the women try to align themselves with the law of this male-dominated society, they are unable to agree that Minnie is to blame, and they take steps to protect her.

In A Doll's House, there is also the sense of male-dominated society, and a woman's role. Torvald controls the money Nora has, he will not allow her to eat sweets, he decides the dance she will perform at the party upstairs, he calls her by little animal names ("my little singing-bird," as if she were a child), and he even compares her to her deceased father—a man (we later learn) for whom Torvald had absolutely no respect.

While the story (Ibsen insisted) was not about women's rights but about human rights in general, Torvald's behavior speaks to the society in which the story is set. Women could only hold menial jobs; they could not borrow money; they did not have the right to vote—

...women had no power.

What lies beneath the genteel Victorian behavior is a desire to control every aspect of society, including the women. Though Torvald tells Nora he wishes he could protect her from harm...

...I have often wished that you might be threatened by some great danger, so that I might risk my life's blood, and everything, for your sake.

...when the opportunity arrives, he is concerned only about himself, and how society will see him. Although Nora also defies society (as do the women in Trifles), and secretly borrows money to save her husband, he doesn't care. When he finds out his reputation is secure, he tells Nora she lacked intelligence:

You have loved me as a wife ought to love her husband. Only you had not sufficient knowledge to judge of the means you used.

At the turn of the century, in the Victorian era, men dominated society. The male characters are realistically portrayed for that time period.

There is an element of subjectivity in the answer to this question. On assessment, Triflesshould contain the more compelling male characterization as it is based on a true story whereas A Doll's House deals more with a concept and the question of the rights of others.

The difficulties in Trifles become apparent as the story develops and the true life of the down-trodden, abused Minnie becomes clearer to the women and so they come to understand her motives behind killing her husband. The men on the other hand, see the facts before them  and are blinded by their own lack of insight. Mitigating circumstances are the last thing on their minds which unfortunately leads them to overlook key factors.

In A Doll's House, Torvald Helmer is also blinded by his own outlook and his wife's motives are also not relevant to him in his concluding that Nora has ruined his life. She cannot be trusted with the children as she is nothing more than a "criminal." 

For men of this standing, in both Trifles and A Doll's House, to be quite so obtuse is alarming but not unexpected. Whilst representative of stereotypes, there are elements in the characters of both plays that the audience can identify with.  

The men in Trifles may not be indicative of the modern man but they are a sorry reminder of communities where women were discounted, demeaned and thought to be lacking in useful opinion.  Similarly with A Doll's House, Torvald, apparently heroically, says he will forgive Nora for what she has done and begs her to reconsider but still misses the point.

For me, A Doll's House is more realistic in revealing the male characters as Torvald is a stock character - male, a banker, married, children, respectable and representative therefore of a whole sector of society. The men in Trifles represent a broader spectrum - a farmer, a lawyer and a sheriff - and as such there should be some differences in them. The fact that there aren't does reveal that communities like this did exist where ALL the men were equally prejudiced but for there to be no indication of any different opinion, to me, lends itself to the women's issues that Glaspell was concerned with thereby suggesting that the play itself has perhaps been manipulated to  highlight the plight of women rather than the retelling of a story of an unfortunate woman who murdered her husband.    

There are many possible answers to this question because it is very subjective. Both stories have male characters that are realistic and believable, yet both stories exaggerate male characteristics. Glaspell does a good job realistically depicting the differences between men and women. Hale and his partners are very technical and exact in their investigation, but overlook small significant items such as the bird. However, the women understand the significance of this item because they are focusing more on how Minnie might have felt, rather than on concrete evidence. Hale is very realistic. However, Wright seems like he is possibly an exaggerated version of a realistic person.

Mr. Helmer is also realistic, but he seems somewhat exaggerated as well. The overbearing, condescending nature of Torvald is more of a caricature of a person than a believable person. The same is true of Dr. Rank and Krogstad. Within these two stories, Hale seems to be the more realistic and least exaggerated character, making "A Jury of Her Peers" a more realistic depiction.