Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers" is a short story that presents to us the gender conflict in society. In the last 1800's, men were the ones that has voice and control over the family. In this story, Mrs. Wright kills her husband for herself and for unequal of freedom. Susan Glaspell favors women in this story because she sees the lack of freedom for women in the society. On the other hand, men were the bad

characters in the story because Glaspell wants to show the readers that men should not have all the control in a family. In "A Jury of Her Peers", the author shows the conflict between men and women and the favoritism between women and women.

Mr. Hale, a friend of John Wright, discovered the murder of John Wright when he visited him. He was told by Minnie Wright that her husband had died. The next morning, Mr. Hale, Sheriff and their wife and county attorney stopped by the house

"A Jury of Her Peers" is a story taut with violence. At no time do we see blood; there is no screaming; there are no corpses; there are none of the trappings our Gothic imaginations have come to expect. And yet in this homely little story about quilting and canning and pet canaries, the psychological tension is almost unendurable -- and much of the tension revolves around gender-specific ways of seeing the world.

The most fascinating thing about this story is the way the two women manage to say the exact opposite of what they really think, and yet understand each other perfectly. For example, Mrs. Peters laughs over the very idea that anyone would think a dead canary had anything to do with a murder -- yet they both know it did. Similarly, when Mrs. Hale pulls out Mrs. Wright's "crazy" stitching, she says she's "just pulling out a stitch or two that's not sewed very good." But they both know what that stitching means. Mrs. Hale's next remark is a rhetorical question about why Mrs. Wright could have been so nervous -- but both she and Mrs. Peters know. Mrs. Hale later asks, just as rhetorically, what could have happened to the bird -- but again, they both know. The violence done in the Wright house was a repeated and systematic rape of Mrs. Wright's bright spirit, until at last she had to retaliate. Men would never understand; but in the unspoken language of women, the secrets of the Wright house are abundantly clear.

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Approximate Word count = 2903
Approximate Pages = 12 (250 words per page double spaced)