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In this excerpt from Susan Glaspell's Trifles, why does Mrs. Hale advise Mrs. Peters to lie to Mrs. Wright about the broken bottles? EXCERPT:
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 help! 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.

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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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