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ardoni88
ardoni88
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College - Sophomore

In the play Trifles, why does Mrs. Wright choose a rope to kill her husband and how does it relate to the theme of the play?

any other reasons beside the husband killed the bird so she's getting revenge.

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Posted by ardoni88 on Tuesday March 3, 2009 at 5:27 PM and tagged with mrs wright, mrwright, play, rope, trifles.

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  1. scdaniel Teacher
    High School - 10th Grade

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    In order to answer this question, it is important to focus not just on the fact that her husband killed her bird, but on how the husband killed the bird -- he broke its neck, and the reader can assume this was the result of the husband strangling the bird to get it to shut up. Also, one could argue that Mrs. Wright has been emotionally strangled by her husband. She used to be a young, beautiful thing that sang in the choir, but after she married John Wright, she was silenced.  It seems a bit of poetic justice for this much abused woman to kill her husband in the manner in which she, herself, has been emotionally killed.

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    Posted by scdaniel on Monday March 23, 2009 at 3:33 PM