Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters do the right thing when they suppress the evidence against Minnie Foster-Wright. The women have to go against what is correct according to the law in order to protect Mrs. Wright. The men obviously do not respect the thoughts of women, when Hale generalizes "women are used to worrying over trifles"; and when the sheriff sarcastically says "Well, ladies, have you decided whether she was going to quilt it or …showed first 75 words of 264 total…

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