What attitudes towards women do the sheriff and the county attorney express? The Sheriff and County Attorney looked down on the women and belittled them at every opportunity. The men are condescending to the women. Their light-hearted banter is heavily couched in sexist remarks.
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Hale and Mrs. Peters react to these sentiments? They were belittling towards the women by making a comment on a conversation the women were having about fruit. They commented that women always worry over non-significant things.
While the sheriff and the county attorney search the Wright property for evidence, Mrs. Hale and the sheriff's wife discover clues to the murder among trivial items they find in the kitchen. Mrs. Peters: Wife of the sheriff.
Peters: Wife of the sheriff (originally played by Alice Hall). Mrs. Hale: Neighbor of the Wrights and wife of Lewis Hale (originally played by Susan Glaspell, and later by Kim Base). John Wright: The murder victim and owner of the house.
Minnie FosterMrs. Hale remembers Minnie for her youthful innocence and happiness before she was married (when she was Minnie Foster).
He is a young man with a self-assured attitude, confident that he'll be able to find and present the evidence against Minnie Wright, and certain of her guilt. The local sheriff who accompanies George Henderson on his investigation.
The setting for Trifles, a bleak, untidy kitchen in an abandoned rural farmhouse, quickly establishes the claustrophobic mood of the play.
Trifles also has a protagonist (Mr. Wright even though he is dead) and an antagonist (Minnie, the wife). The play is also a mystery; it is obvious that from the start, Minnie takes the life of her husband.
Due to the nature of the murder, strangulation in bed, the primary suspect in the investigation is Mr. Wright's wife, Minnie, who is in custody as the play begins. The county attorney George Henderson and sheriff Henry Peters know that they cannot convict Mrs.
5 - county attorney, George Henderson, the local sheriff, Henry Peters, and the neighbor, Lewis Hale, who discovered the murder man, John Wright, strangled with a rope in his bed.
The chair symbolizes the absent Minnie Wright. The rocking chair “was dingy, with wooden rungs up the back, and the middle rung was gone, and the chair sagged to one side”(Glaspell 157), which was not anything like Mrs. Hale used to remember it being. Mrs.
What does Mrs. Hale admit to feeling guilty about? Mrs. Hale regrets not visiting Minnie Foster Wright more often.
How does this dialogue develop Mrs. Wright's possible motivation for killing her husband? -The dialogue suggests that Mr. Wright was constantly unhappy.