Mrs. Hale's Loyalty in Trifles The main idea I want to write about has to do with how Mrs. Hale stands behind Mrs. Wright even though it seems that everyone else especially (men) would prefer to lock her up and throw away the key. We see this right away when he accuses the county attorney of cracking down on Mrs. Wright's housekeeping. I find this to be wonderfully symbolic as most women of this time usually allowed men to say whatever they wanted about their sex, without ever defending themselves or others. You notice that this is so because Mrs. Peters is struggling with what it is to hear from men versus what she feels herself. When Mrs. Hale tells Mrs. Peters that she would hate for men to be in her kitchen snooping and criticizing, Mrs. Peters responds by saying "Of course it's nothing more than their duty." This reflects to me a woman who has been so brainwashed by the manly vision of her time that she can't even see the simple feelings women have for each other and each other. We then come to the part where the women talk about Mrs. Peter's interactions with the other women in town. Mrs. Hale said she was not part of the Ladies' Aid (which seemed like a thing for women to do in that town), she dressed shabbily, which she had never done before becoming Mr. Wright's wife. Mrs. Hale also clearly states that she doesn't believe that Mrs. Wright killed her husband while Mrs. Peters is struggling with this, saying that the lawyer thinks it's bad because she didn't wake up when her husband was killed in bed right next to her. Mrs. Hale is of my opinion saying don't blame her because obviously he didn't wake up either or maybe he would be alive or at least maybe he could have woken her up in his struggle. Another symbolic part of the play is when the men hear the women talking about Mrs. Wright's quilt, wondering if she would quilt it or knot it, and they laugh at them. Mrs. Hale immediately takes offense at the way they laughed at them while Mrs. Peters apologizes to them because "they have a lot on their minds".".