"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 great life with the capacity to develop, but then she is now portrayed as someone who eventually loses these qualities. She is no longer seen in the community and it becomes obvious to .
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the women that she is driven to this withdrawn state by her oppressive husband. The change in Minnie Wright is seen by Mrs. Hale when she views her rocker, it is"dingy red, with wooden rugs up the back., and the chair sagged to one side.(30)" .
Things become even more evident to Mrs. Hale that Minnie as completely changed when she sees the poor condition her clothes is in.
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.
