MRS. HALE: (looking about) It never seemed a very cheerful place.
COUNTY ATTORNEY: No—it's not cheerful. I shouldn't say she had the homemaking instinct.
MRS. HALE: Well, I don't know as Wright had, either. (42-22)
Oh, these two are at it again. The County Attorney pins the house's gloominess on the idea that Mrs. Wright was a bad homemaker, which again to him means she was a failure as a woman. But then Mrs. Hale flips the idea of being a homemaker on its head, pinning the gloominess of the house on Mr. Wright's bad attitude. So Mrs. Hale is basically saying that it isn't just the woman's responsibility to make a home. Men are homemakers too, and John Wright was a lousy one.
