What ironies does the play contain? Comment on Mrs. Hale’s closingspeech: “We call it—knot it, Mr. Henderson.” Why is that little hesitation before “knot it” such a meaningful pause?
What will be an ideal response?
- Mrs. Hale’s comment that “Men’s hands aren’t always as clean as they might be” could be taken as an ironic observation on John Wright’s character and behavior. The County Attorney’s request to Mrs. Peters to “keep an eye out for anything that might be of use to us” is ironic on several levels: the usefulness of the evidence she turns up is lost on him and the Sheriff, and in the end she helps to ensure that this evidence will not be of any use to them. The largest irony, of course, inheres in the play’s title: what the law officials consider trifles are the very details that could seal their case for them if they had the wit to realize their significance. The pause before “knot it” reminds us of the reverberations of the phrase in the context of the play: Minnie Wright has knotted not only the quilt stitches but also the rope around her husband’s neck, and, thanks to the actions of the two women in the play, she will be spared having a rope knotted around her own neck.
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