In this excerpt from susan glaspell's trifles, why does mrs. hale advise mrs. peters to lie to mrs. wright about the broken bottles?
mrs hale: (not as if answering that i wish you'd seen minnie foster when she wore a white dress with blue ribbons and stood up there in
the choir and sang. (a look around the room) oh, i wish i'd come over here once in a while! that was a crime! that was a crime! who's going
to punish that?
mrs peters: (looking upstairs) we mustn't--take on
mrs hale: i might have known she needed ! i know how things can be-for women. i tell you, it's queer, mrs peters. we live close
together and we live far apart. we all go through the same things-it's all just a different kind of the same thing. (brushes her eyes, noticing
the bottle of fruit reaches out for it if i was you, i wouldn't tell her her fruit was gone. tell her it ain't tell her it's all right. take this in to
prove it to her. she-she may never know whether it was broke or not.
mrs. hale feels sympathetic toward mrs. wright.
mrs. hale is responsible for breaking the bottles.
mrs. hale doesn't want to cause mrs. wright any more grief
mrs. hale feels jealous of mrs. wright's tasty fruit preserves.
mrs. hale doesn't want to clean up the broken bottles of preserves.

    we learn about mrs. ramsey's personality by observing her feelings about other characters.  for example, mrs. ramsey has mixed feelings toward mr. tansley, but her feelings seem to grow more positive over time as she comes to know him better.  at first mrs. ramsey finds mr. tansley annoying, as shown especially when he mentions that no one is going to the lighthouse (52).  but rather than hating him, at this point she feels pity: "she pitied men always as if they lacked something . ." (85).  then later, during the gathering, pity turns to empathy as she realizes that mr. tansley must feel inferior.  he must know, mrs. ramsey thinks, that "no woman would look at him with paul rayley in the room" (106).  finally, by the end of the dinner scene, she feels some attraction to mr. tansley and also a new respect: "she liked his laugh. .   she liked his awkwardness.  there was a lot in that man after all" (110).  in observing this evolution in her attitude, we learn more about mrs. ramsey than we do about mr. tansley.  the change in mrs. ramsey's attitude is not used by woolf to show that mrs. ramsey is fickle or confused; rather it is used to show her capacity for understanding both the frailty and complexity of human beings.  this is a central characteristic of mrs. ramsey's personality.