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Quote #10
MRS. PETERS: (moving uneasily) We don't know who killed the bird.
MRS. HALE: I knew John Wright.
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.
MRS. HALE: His neck. Choked the life out of him. (129-131)
These lines leave us with the basic moral conundrum of the play. No matter how you shake it, Mrs. Wright strangling her husband to death was a gruesome thing to do. Do the years of emotional abuse and murder of her pet bird justify this brutally violent crime? Are the women right to hide the evidence that could bring Mrs. Wright to justice? Is there any justice in the violent world of Trifles?