‘A Jury of Her Peers’ by Susan Glaspell is a story relating to a husband, John Wright, who was found strangled in his bed. His wife, Mrs. Wright, is suspected of her husbands murder and is remanded by the police. The story commences the next day when the sheriff, his wife, the county attorney and the witnesses, Mr. And Mrs hale return to the Wrights’ home. The women are there to assemble clothes for Minnie to wear, while the men are there to check over the crime scene. The setting becomes very significant in this story when the writer uses majority of her time describing it rather than really developing the characters. This hints to the reader that the setting in fact tells the tale of Minnie Wright and what drives her to kill John Wright.
In her earlier years Minnie Wright is depicted as a person of
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Its facetious how the things that the men find unimportant or just ‘kitchen things’ are in fact the clues they needed to prove Minnie’s guilt. The mens’ superior attitude, and ignorance leads to their downfall, unlike the women who reaches closer to the truth when they read between the lines of the unfinished tasks. The chore of not completely putting away the sugar and the unruly sewing of a small piece of unfinished quilt hints to Mrs. Hale that Minnie must have been interrupted like how she had been when she left her kitchen in a mess. The setting slowly tells Minnie’s tale when an empty bird cage is found with a broken door, since the Wrights’ did not own a cat the ladies put
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