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Quote #10
MRS. PETERS: It was an awful thing was done in this house that night, Mrs. Hale. Killing a man while he slept, slipping a rope around his neck that choked the life out of him. (130)
So after years of confinement by her husband, Mrs. Wright killed him by strangling him with a rope. On one level, this is a fitting death because she's kind of doing to him what he did to the bird. On another level, though, it's fitting because she's confining him. Being strung up by the neck is about as trapped as a person can get.