MRS HALE: (looking about) It never seemed a very cheerful place. COUNTY ATTORNEY: No — it's not cheerful. I shouldn't say she had the homemaking instinct.

MRS HALE: Well, I don't know as Wright had, either.

COUNTY ATTORNEY: You mean that they didn't get on very well?

MRS HALE: No, I don't mean anything. But I don’t think a place'd be any cheerfuller for John Wright's being in it.

—Trifles, Susan Glaspell

How does this dialogue develop Mrs. Wright’s possible motivation for killing her husband?

The dialogue suggests that Mr. Wright was constantly unhappy.

The dialogue suggests that Mrs. Wright may have desired to escape her unhappy marriage.

The dialogue suggests that Mrs. Wright may have wanted to prove her abilities.

The dialogue suggests that Mrs. Wright may have wanted to assert her independence.

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