Trifles: The Rise of Modern Feminism on the Stage, Part 1
Question 9 • English 4 Sem-2-HONORS-FL-1001410 (2024-2025)
Read the excerpt from part one of Trifles.COUNTY ATTORNEY. How did she seem to feel about you coming?HALE. Why, I don’t think she minded—one way or the other. She didn’t pay much attention. I said, “How do, Mrs. Wright, it’s cold, ain’t it?” And she said, “Is it?”—and went on kind of pleating at her apron. . . . And then she—laughed. I guess you would call it a laugh.How does this dialogue further develop the idea that Mrs. Wright may have had a motive for killing her husband?
Answer
A
It suggests that she has actually gone insane.
B
It suggests that she finds death humorous.
C
It suggests that she did not care about his death.