Language and voice go a long way toward establishing the personalities of the characters. The way a character speaks, especially elements such as speech patterns, accents, dialect, syntax, and vocabulary, can reveal a character's class status and social background and will affect how the audience responds to him or her. Inflection, pitch, and tone help to establish a character's feelings. Pauses in speech can be used to dramatic effect or to express a character's feelings, suggesting a character's thinking before responding or difficulty accepting an idea. Pauses can also create suspense, as the women's slow realization of Mrs. Wright's guilt, and their unwillingness to expose her, is shown through their hesitant dialogue with one another and with the men in Trifles.