Quote Response 7

MRS. HALE: "We think the -- cat got it." (Glaspell 846)

This line is delivered to the men investigating the house. I think it's important because of it's obvious meaning and a possible implied meaning. A little before this line, the women are talking about how Mrs. Wright didn't have a cat, and wouldn't have one because she was afraid of them. When Mrs. Hale tells the men that they think the cat got the bird, they are obviously covering up for the fact that the bird's had been murdered, in the same way that Mr. Wright had been. The women believe that Mr. Wright must have killed Mrs. Wright's bird and so she killed him in the same manner. The possible implied meaning could come from the use of the word "cat" to talk about Mrs. Wright. With this meaning, the author would be making it even more clear that the women believe the dead bird serves as motive/evidence to the theory that Mrs. Wright murdered her husband.