In the beginning of the play, the County Attorney remarks upon how d

Later Mrs. Hale is noting the sneakiness of searching the house with Mrs. Wright not there make it more "red-up", and in effect getting the house to work against her. Of course, the house search was the men's idea. What Mrs. Hale is really implying is that perhaps deep down the men know the truth. They know that Mr. Wright beat Mrs. Wright, and that she killed him for it. However, the men are so unwilling to admit their own sex is in the wrong, that they would rather use the untidy house to make Mrs. Wright look bad.

The county Attorney and sheriff go noisily through the house looking for hard signs of evidence to which there is none. They do not go into the house not knowing who the killer was; in their hearts they know it was Mrs. Wright. But they had to make her look bad by commenting on her dirty house etc., rather than face up to the fact that she killed out of self-defense against an abusive husband. Even when given the most obvious clue about knotting the quilt, the men did not care to acknowledge the reason behind Mrs. Wright's anger. The women use nothing but trivial contexts in this drama to mask their own

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Approximate Word count = 758
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)