PLOT VISUALIZATION
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- Hale are neighbors with Mr Peters (Henry) & Mrs. Peters, and Mr. Peters is the sherif. They are accompanied by the county attorney , George Henderson. They all go to a farmhouse where Minnie Foster and John Wright resided. Mrs. Peters stated how she knew Minnie from when they were younger, but hasn't kept in touch. Mr. Hale is asked by the sherif to depict what occurred in the farmhouse yesterday at the Wrights.Exposition: Martha and Lewis
- Mr. Hale depicts how he offered to put in a telephone line for John Wright, but he wasn't sure if he would approve a telephone for his wife. When he encounters Minnie, she is sitting alone in her chair, and when asked where John is, she laughs awkwardly. She states that he can't speak to John because he's dead, and died of a rope to his neck. She states that she doesn't know who killed him because she was asleep.
- When in the Kitchen searching for evidence, Mr. Hale notices that Minnie's jam jars have broken, Mrs. Peters sympathizes with Minnie, stating how Minnie was afraid that the jars would burst open given the cold whether. The men, on the other hand, don't see any significance of this analysis of the jars, stating that women are too busy being worried over "trifles." The women seem to understand aspects of Minnie's life that the men cannot, such as how the messy kitchen may symbolize the disfunctional life she lived with John.
- The women find Minnie's quilt and start to analyze its details, such as how parts are not sewed properly, so Martha restitches it. The men dismiss the quilt as insignificant, which reveals their unwillingness to take into account certain factors such as the quilt, since it may seem insignificant and joke around about whether Mrs Hale would knot or quilt it. But, the quilt actually foreshadows the evidence found soon after.
- The women then find a box containing the remains of a dead bird, that must have been chocked to death. This evidence further reveals that Minnie must have chocked the bird. The bird in the cage symbolizes Minnie's feeling of being trapped and imprisoned in her marriage with John, and she just couldn't take it anymore.
- After finding the dead bird, the men come back to the kitchen, but Mrs. Hale hides the bird under the quilt. Mrs. Hale's instinct to hide the evidence from the men reveal her desire to protect Minnie, because she sympathizes with her hardship in her abusive marriage with John.
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