In this excerpt from susan glaspell's trifles, why does mrs. hale advise mrs. peters to lie to mrs. wright about the broken bottles?

mrs hale: (not as if answering that) i wish you'd seen minnie foster when she wore a white dress with blue ribbons and stood up there in the choir and sang. (a look around the room) oh, i wish i'd come over here once in a while! that was a crime! that was a crime! who's going to punish that?

mrs peters: (looking upstairs) we mustn't—take on.

mrs hale: i might have known she needed ! i know how things can be—for women. i tell you, it's queer, mrs peters. we live close together and we live far apart. we all go through the same things—it's all just a different kind of the same thing, (brushes her eyes, noticing the bottle of fruit, reaches out for it) if i was you, i wouldn't tell her her fruit was gone. tell her it ain't. tell her it's all right. take this in to prove it to her. she—she may never know whether it was broke or not.

mrs. hale feels sympathetic toward mrs. wright.
mrs. hale is responsible for breaking the bottles.
mrs. hale doesn’t want to cause mrs. wright any more grief.
mrs. hale feels jealous of mrs. wright's tasty fruit preserves.
mrs. hale doesn’t want to clean up the broken bottles of preserves.

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With this 3 questions ! really need them right! 1. the first continental congress met in philadelphia on september 5, 1774. all of the colonies sent representatives except georgia. this congress continued in session until october 26, 1774. by then it had passed resolutions calling for a boycott against british trade. the author's main purpose was a. to inform b. to persuade c. to instruct d. to give an opinion 2. identify the point of view of each of the following passages. "my second mate was a round-cheeked, silent young man, grave beyond his years, i thought; but as our eyes happened to meet i detected a slight quiver on his lips. i looked down at once. it was not my part to encourage sneering on board my ship. it must be said, too, that i knew very little of my officers." (joseph conrad, "the secret sharer") a. first person b. third person limited c. third person omniscient d. none of the above 3. identify the point of view of each of the following passages. "he had only himself to in his choice: his fortune was his own; for as to frank, it was more than being tacitly brought up as his uncle's heir, it had become so avowed an adoption as to have him assume the name of churchill on coming of age. it was most unlikely, therefore, that he should ever want his father's assistance. his father had no apprehension of it." (jane austen, emma) a. third person omniscient b. third person limited c. first person d. none of the above