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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.

i am for my child

below i present a summary with the most relevant aspects of chapter 2, which were taken from karangan bahasa inggeris (english essays) spm: argumentative essays.

tuna wira

credit to mohana ram murugiah.

i hope to be of

teacher smiles at the students who wait for his signal to sit down. he nods briefly and the students sit down and get ready for the lesson to start. there is an air of quiet expectancy when teacher refers to the unusual things found underneath their houses that morning. whispers of bags of rice ran among the students and a student muttered reluctantly that the rice is rent for the landlord. this starts off the discussion on the issue of paying rent for the use of the landowner’s land. da wan raises the question of why the landlord owns the land rather than the farmer although they have spent a lot of time farming it. the three reasons of labour, need and inheritance are listed as reasons for the landlord’s ownership of the land. they are discussed and dismissed as inadequate reasons. they suggested a system of collective farming to the farmers. the headmaster comes down the corridor to observe the lesson. teacher very quickly changed the lesson to a geography wesson. the students followed his cue and no one gave the slightest notice < of the headmaster ‘s presence. when the headmaster leaves, teacher explains the implications of winning the scholarship. it involves bearing respontsibilities and the scholarship holder should master what is useful and return to the village. he should understand the injustices in the present system and change it to a fairer system. then, he announces the wiimnuir of the scholarship to be dawan.