Question

COUNTY ATTORNEY. How did she seem to feel about you coming? HALE. Why, I don’t think she minded—one way or the other. She didn’t pay much attention. I said, “How do, Mrs. Wright, it’s cold, ain’t it?” And she said, “Is it?”—and went on kind of pleating at her apron. . . . And then she—laughed. I guess you would call it a laugh. How does this dialogue further develop the idea that Mrs. Wright may have had a motive for killing her husband? It suggests that she has actually gone insane. It suggests that she finds death humorous. It suggests that she did not care about his death. It suggests that she is hiding her real emotions.

Answer 1

The best answer for this question would be:

It suggests that she is hiding her real emotions.

Mrs. Wright does not actually show any too obvious signs that she wants to kill her husband, but rather hides her true motives through the emotions that she shows in front of her husband.

Answer 2

I believe the answer is: It suggests that she did not care about his death.

Pay attention to this line

And then she—laughed. I guess you would call it a laugh.

Laughing after the death of loved ones is very unusual, but it is not impossible. From her action, most readers would most likely come up with two possible explanations:

The first one is that she is mentally shaken to the point where she laugh like a disturbed person. The second one is that she laugh because she is the one that murdered him and she is satisfied with the outcome.