Consider the following passage from Susan Glaspell$$s play Trifles:

Mrs$.$ Peters: She was piecing a quilt. $[$She brings the large sewing basket and they look at the bright pieces.$]$

Mrs$.$ Hale: It$$s log cabin pattern. Pretty, isn$$t it$?$ I wonder if she was goin$$ to quilt it or just knot it$?$

$[$Footsteps have been heard coming down the stairs. The Sheriff enters followed by Hale and the County Attorney.$]$

Sheriff: They wonder if she was going to quilt it or just knot it$!($Full D$-268,$ Shorter $688)$

Match each of the following quotations from the above passage with the statement that best describes its larger significance.

$[$She brings the large sewing basket and they look at the bright pieces.$]$

$$It$$s log cabin pattern.$$

$$They wonder if she was going to quilt it or just knot it$!$

The women of the play$$Mrs$.$ Hale and Mrs$.$ Peters$$are able to solve the mystery of Mr$.$ Wright$$s murder because of their close attention to overlooked $$trifles$.$

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The audience gets to know Mrs$.$ Wright as a character through her objects, and in part as a result, she appears to be defined by her domestic work and her duties within a home.

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The men of the play frequently act condescendingly toward the women.