Hale's Argumentative Essay

After a conversation where Hale explains what he encountered when he entered the home the previous morning, the County Attorney wants to get started with the investigation of the crime scene. The County Attorney says after looking around “I guess we’ll go upstairs first – and then out to the barn and around there.” This is the first verbal inference about the County Attorney’s chauvinistic feelings. He is thinking along more of a man’s self importance not stopping to think about this is where a woman would or could spend a lot of time thinking about things. The sheriff goes on to back up this ideal when asked if he was “convinced that there was nothing of importance here- nothing that would point to any motive?” by the county attorney, by saying “Nothing here but kitchen things.”(1128) Which is telling us that the sheriff also sees in the more self important man view of things. That it’s just a kitchen and it couldn’t offer any clues about a case as big as a murder. …show more content…
Mrs. Peters explains how Mrs. Wright was worried about the fruit and the freezing temperatures of the house. This is when Mr. Hale shows his disregard for what a woman’s worth is by saying, “Well women are used to worrying over trifles.”(1128) With this passage all the men have now shown their callous attitudes about what kind of work that a woman does to be the homemaker. At this point the women are taken back by the men and their inferences, and move a little closer to each other as to say I understand what kind of work it was to make that