Literary notes about trivial (AI summary)
Writers employ the term “trivial” in diverse ways to signal the insignificance or superficiality of incidents and details, while sometimes using it to heighten contrasts between the mundane and the profound. In many works, “trivial” underscores an aspect of life that is dismissed as unimportant—a minor accident that inadvertently changes the narrative course ([1]) or a seemingly insignificant detail that reveals deeper truths about a character’s nature ([2], [3]). Conversely, it is also used to remark on the pettiness of human concerns, whether it is the triviality of everyday misunderstandings ([4]) or the ironic portrayal of a once vital passion reduced to a trivial pursuit in memory ([5]). In this way, the adjective serves both to diminish the weight of certain events and to spotlight the inherent contradiction between what appears unimportant and what may ultimately carry hidden significance ([6], [7], [8]).