Read the excerpt from midnight assassin. as glaspell struggled to understand and describe margaret hossack, her accounts alternated between those that portrayed margaret hossack as maternal and frail—anxious to see her family; tired and worn by the course of events—and those that depicted her as lacking in the typical emotional and feminine traits—not hysterical, but emotionless and dry-eyed; not weak, but determined and willful; not soft-featured, but square-jawed and hard. the excerpt supports the idea that the newspaper stories glaspell wrote about margaret hossack were