Hale finish checking upstairs and come down, the sheriff hears Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters confuse what Mrs. Wright was going to do. The sheriff says to the other the men: "They wonder if she was going to quilt it or just knot it! (The men laugh; the women looked abashed.) " (1388), quickly to mocking the women's craft. Little did they know, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale developed a theory that Mrs. Wright's sudden jolt of her stitching pattern revealed her nervousness and unbalanced emotional state, but being women made them appear as incompetent to develop such observation. In Mr. Peters' eyes, women attempting to look for the truth was a joke. Mr. Peter demonstrates how he looks down upon women's help, and he does not believe that the women's questions could help them at all. Proving how women were simply put down and disregarded, which leads us to the next male character, Mr. Hale, who capitalizes on this discrimination toward the women and presents the sexist attitude in the play.
Mr. Lewis Hale, a neighboring farmer, is sexist. After Mr. Hale tells the attorney what happened last night, Mrs. Peters finds that there is something strange about Mrs. Wrights' fruit. Mr. Hale says to the other men: "Well, women are used to worrying over trifles " (1386). Using "used to ", Mr. Hale demonstrates that he thinks women always do useless things. The sheriff is superior to Mr. Hale; Mr. Hale could say this insulting sentence in front of the sheriff and Mrs. Peters. It demonstrates his characteristic of sexism, and also shows an internal agreement between the men regarding the women's domestic responsibilities. This proves how unappreciated the women actually were in this society, despite their time "consuming work. The ideas presented leads us to our main, deceased, character who's behavior represents the "everyday " man's household behavior that deprives women of emotional connection with their husbands overtime.