Question

Select the correct answer.

Which theme is evident in this excerpt from Susan Glaspell's Trifles?

MRS HALE: I wish if they're going to find any evidence they'd be about it. I don't like this place.

MRS PETERS: But I'm awful glad you came with me, Mrs Hale. It would be lonesome for me sitting here alone.

MRS HALE: It would, wouldn't it? (dropping her sewing) But I tell you what I do wish, Mrs Peters. I wish I had come over sometimes when she was here. I—(looking around the room)—wish I had.

MRS PETERS: But of course you were awful busy, Mrs Hale—your house and your children.

MRS HALE: I could've come. I stayed away because it weren't cheerful—and that's why I ought to have come. I—I've never liked this place. Maybe because it's down in a hollow and you don't see the road. I dunno what it is, but it's a lonesome place and always was. I wish I had come over to see Minnie Foster sometimes. I can see now—(shakes her head)

MRS PETERS: Well, you mustn't reproach yourself, Mrs Hale. Somehow we just don't see how it is with other folks until—something comes up.

MRS HALE: Not having children makes less work—but it makes a quiet house, and Wright out to work all day, and no company when he did come in. Did you know John Wright, Mrs Peters?

A.
Loneliness causes grief.
B.
Justice is swift.
C.
Life is full of hope.
D.
Time waits for no man.

Answer 1

The answer is A. Loneliness causes grief.

Answer 2

The theme that is evident in this excerpt from Susan Glaspell's Trifles is Loneliness causes grief.

Step-by-step explanation:

This conversation between Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, has a melancholic feeling, and they mention several times how the place feels lonely and apart from everything and every one, this connected to the last comment where they mention the nonexistence of children sets the theme about loneliness and grief but not only physical loneliness but emotional loneliness