Character · Trifles · Susan Glaspell

MRS. HALE

1 monologue indexed — plays guilt.

DramaticGuilt40s–50sIntermediate

Monologues

MRS. HALE

I might have known she needed help! 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.

0:56DramaticIntermediate

What MRS. wants

To make sense of her own failure to knock on a lonely woman's door — and to decide what to do with what she now knows.The men have gone upstairs looking for a motive. The two women, left with the "trifles," have pieced together the years of loneliness that broke Minnie Wright.