An Analysis of Susan Glaspell’s A Jury of Her Peers

The men in this story represent all aspects of the law. Mr. Hale, who is the prime witness; Mr. Peters, the sheriff; and Mr. Henderson, the county attorney all go to the Wright’s homestead to look for evidence to justify the death of Mr. Wright. They see a dead body as the beginning to an investigation, looking for clues and evidence to convict Mrs. Wright.

The two women in this story is Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters their main reason for being in the house was to gather a few minor things for Mrs. Minnie

Later on in the story, it finally dawns on Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters that year after year John Wright was slowly sucking the life out of Minnie Foster Wright, enforcing solitude (living alone with no kids, so far from the road) that his death in itself was avenge for hers. The men, “think it was such a –funny was to kill a man,” especially with “a gun in the house” (Glaspell 162). John Wright strangled the life out of Minnie Foster Wright’s spirit, destroying her livelihood, so she returned the favor.

Foster Wright while she was in jail. After several minutes in the house, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters becomes Mrs. Wright’s “Jury of Her Peers.” After being left alone in the kitchen the women start to put the puzzle together and begin to see the big picture.

The evidence is noticeable, like the lid of the sugar was off the wooded bucket and the half bag of sugar next to it, a towel in the middle of her half wipe table, and her quilt with one square stitch in a crazy pattern. The women figure out that something happened, but something was interrupting her. Which poses some questions like what happened to Minnie Foster to make her leave things half done? What could h

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