Which excerpt from part one of trifles most develops the motives of the county attorney?

a. county attorney. somebody should have been left here yesterday.

b. county attorney. how did she seem to feel about your coming?

c. county attorney. (to the sheriff.) you’re convinced that there was nothing important here-—nothing that would point to any motive?

d. county attorney (with the gallantry of a young politician). and yet, for all their worries, what would we do without the ladies?

The correct answer is option C. "COUNTY ATTORNEY. (To the Sheriff.) You’re convinced that there was nothing important here-—nothing that would point to any motive?". In the one-act play "Trifles" by Susan Glaspel, George Henderson is a County Attorney that decides to spares the punishment that the law would let in a women that killed an abusive husband. In part one of the play the motives of the County Attorney are developed when he questions the Sheriff if he saw anything that would motive the woman to kill her husband.

answer; i believe the correct answer is ( indirect characterization);

- "he is a very real person and his intent isn't to influence us vonnegut addresses this towards the end of the letter when he says, if we choose to curse, that is by our own individual means."