Which excerpt from part one of trifles contains a stage direction that contributes to the character development of mrs. hale?

a. mrs. hale (shaking her head). i’ve not seen much of her of late years. i’ve not been in this house—it’s more than a year.
b. mrs. hale (looking about). it never seemed a very cheerful place.
c. mrs. hale. i’d hate to have men coming into my kitchen, snooping around and criticizing. (she arranges the pans under sink which the lawyer had shoved out of place.)
d. mrs. hale (eyes fixed on a loaf of bread beside the breadbox, which is on a low shelf at the other side of the room. moves slowly toward it.) she was going to put this in there.

C) MRS. HALE. I’d hate to have men coming into my kitchen, snooping around and criticizing. (She arranges the pans under sink which the Lawyer had shoved out of place).

Explanation: a stage direction is an instruction in the text of a play indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting. From the given options, the excerpt that contains a stage direction that contributes to the character development of Mrs. Hale is the corresponding to option C, because she says that she hate to have men coming into her kitchen (because they criticize), and the stage direction shows her arranges things in place, which means that she cares about what people think of her kitchen.

b

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