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in this excerpt from susan glaspell's trifles, why does mrs. hale advise mrs. peters to lie to mrs. wright about the broken bottles?

mrs hale: (not as if answering that) i wish you'd seen minnie foster when she wore a white dress with blue ribbons and stood up there in the choir and sang. (a look around the room) oh, i wish i'd come over here once in a while! that was a crime! that was a crime! who's going to punish that?

mrs peters: (looking upstairs) we mustn't—take on.

mrs hale: i might have known she needed ! i know how things can be—for women. i tell you, it's queer, mrs peters. we live close together and we live far apart. we all go through the same things—it's all just a different kind of the same thing, (brushes her eyes, noticing the bottle of fruit, reaches out for it) if i was you, i wouldn't tell her her fruit was gone. tell her it ain't. tell her it's all right. take this in to prove it to her. she—she may never know whether it was broke or not.

answers:

mrs. hale feels sympathetic toward mrs. wright.

mrs. hale is responsible for breaking the bottles.

mrs. hale doesn’t want to cause mrs. wright any more grief.

mrs. hale feels jealous of mrs. wright's tasty fruit preserves.

mrs. hale doesn’t want to clean up the broken bottles of preserves.

In this excerpt from Susan Glaspell's Trifles, Mrs Hale advises Mrs Peters to lie to Mrs Wright about the broken bottles.

Explanation:

Trifles is a famous play written by Susan Glaspell's. It was first performed on August 8, 1916, at Wharf Theatre in Provincetown. The play revolves around a murder and trifles of women that men seem to think are insignificant and disregard them.  

Keeping with the theme of the play Mrs Hale advised Mrs Peters to hide the fact that she had broken the bottles as she feels sympathetic towards Mrs Wright.

jim mohr

explanation:

explanatithe story "two kinds" , revolves around a strict relationship between a mother and daughter. the mother tries very hard to make sure her daughter jing mei , is successful in life and lives up to her full potential. the story explores alot of different themes. though , there is one theme that really stands out. you cant force someone to be something that their not.

jing mei's mother was an immagrant from china. she moved to the united states to give her daughter , jing mei , a better and successful life for her. and being raised in china with their strict rules and striving to be perfect took a toll on her and her daughters relationship. she pressures her daughter to be great and perfect all the time but it gets really hard for her to live up to her mothers standards. her mother believes that jing mei can be a child prodigy and prepares her to be and act like one. furthermore , the story ends with jing mei getting everything off her chest and seeing the dissappointment in her mothers eyes as she finds out her daughter has not lived up to her full potential. and her mother has finally gained an understanding of her daughter.

tbh ur lucky i answered because you only gave 5 points. it should have been like 50.