After the murder of Mr. Wright, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale go around the house looking for clues to find the killer and the motive. Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale discover an empty bird cage and “a pretty box” that looked like it had “sewing things in it”. When they opened the box, they discovered that there was a dead bird inside with broken neck (Glaspell 778-781). Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale then remembered that Mr. Wright died from “a rope around his neck” (Glaspell 774). Putting all the evidence together along with the reputation of Mr. Wright as a “hard man”, the women conclude that Mr. Wright must have broken the birds neck, so Mrs. Wright broke her husband’s neck for killing her bird (Glaspell 780).
Mrs. Peters changes significantly from the
Mrs. Peters changes significantly from the