She thinks women have their place, and that is out of men's way. She was never really close to Mrs. Wright, so she probably wants to get in and out of the house as soon as possible. .
When the women are left alone, they begin to find evidence that maybe Mrs. Wright did lose her mind and what caused her to do so. Mrs. Peters feels that the evidence is the men's business and she had no right to fool around with it because it was not her place. The broken jars of preserves, the half cleaned table, the sloppy stitching, and the broken birdcage could all be used to possibly aid her husband in solving the case, but she chooses to ignore it and stay out of the way. During most of this half of the play, Mrs. Peters is constantly begging Mrs. Hale to leave the items they find alone, that the men could decide if it was important or not. She seems to be afraid of the men until she starts talking about her childhood. When she was young, a boy her age killed her cat with a hatchet. When she sees this, the other kids around had to hold her back or she would have hurt him. .
This is the only time Mrs. Peters speaks of resentment towards male figure in the play and possibly show that she doesn't like being seen as a second-class citizen. Next is the farmer's wife, the strong willed Mrs. Hale. She seems to be the type that tells it like it is. She hates when men step out of their sphere and poke around in hers. She stands up to the men's sexist remarks and comes up with some good ones of her own. When she is left alone in the kitchen with Mrs. Peters, she immediately begins to complain about the men snooping around Mrs. Wright's house without her actually being there. She completely reacts differently to all of the evidence the women find together. She cleans up the spilled preserves, the table, and she even fixed the uneven stitching. The whole time she is complaining about the men's justice system and how unfairly Mrs.
