2 Best Mrs. Hale Monologues

Category: Play Role: Mrs. Hale From: Trifles

Mrs. Hale says

But I tell you what I do wish, Mrs Peters. I wish I had come over sometimes when she was here. I – -wish I had. I could’ve come. I stayed away because it weren’t cheerful -and that’s why I ought to have come.

I -I’ve never liked this place. Maybe because it’s down in a hollow and you don’t see the road. I dunno what it is, but it’s a lonesome place and always was. I wish I had come over to see Minnie Foster sometimes.

I can see now – Not having children makes less work -but it makes a quiet house, and Wright out to work all day, and no company when he did come in.

Did you know John Wright, Mrs Peters? he didn’t drink, and kept his word as well as most, I guess, and paid his debts. But he was a hard man, Mrs Peters. Just to pass the time of day with him -Like a raw wind that gets to the bone.

I should think she would ‘a wanted a bird. But what do you suppose went with it?

Category: Play Role: Mrs. Hale From: Trifles

Mrs. Hale says

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. 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?

I might have known she needed help! 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, 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.