Minnie Wright
Minnie Wright sat solemnly on her cot with her knees to her chest. She starred intently at the metal bars that surrounded her, in the same way that she had gazed through her kitchen window so many times before. Her mind raced and she could not exactly pin point how she felt. She could not recognize this person that she had become and it made her feel angry and pitiful. She had become a murderer, a cold-blooded murderer. She missed John now, but she didn't. She thought of all the fun times that they had had together, but she knew that was in the past. She remembered when she met him. She was walking to school down the dirt road from her mama's house. A handsome man stopped in a truck and asked her if she needed a ride. Minnie knew from that first interaction that day that she was attracted to the mature John Wright. John saw right through her; he was the answer to all of her problems. He was older. He was going places. Minnie felt like a queen when John asked her to marry him. She was so naive. She thought of the sheriff's wife rummaging through her shabby things, and she felt shameful. Hopefully she would see the polka-dot dresses that Minnie used to wear in high school, when she was in the choir, when she was popul
"I don't want to talk," she said, and the door slammed. ar, when older boys like john liked her. Minnie needed her quilt right now; it was like her only friend and comfort. She was used to occupying herself to escape John's world, but now she needed something to help her escape her own world. It seemed to Minnie that the longer she was married to John, the further away she got from recognizing who she was. Her mother had warned her of this and disliked John. If only her mother knew what John was really like, or at least who he had become. He basically scared Minnie into hibernating in the corner room of the house. She couldn't go many places, and when she did, he had his eye on her. Minnie wished that she had stayed in touch with her family but her mother was ashamed of her. A few years back, her mother had come to visit her, and Minnie opened the front door with a black eye. Her mother begged her in disgrace to leave John. How ashamed her mother would be of her now. By writing the story from this limited omniscient point of view regarding Minnie, the reader gets an inside look at what really happened the night of the murder. The reader gets a truer feel for the couples relationship, as well as an inside look at Minnie's thoughts. The story "A Jury of Her Peers" By Susan Glaspell is told in limited omniscient context as well, but it is told regarding the mystery of the murder, and Minnie is never present. By being more personally involved with how John was murdered, the reader gains sympathy for Minnie, in a different way the
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Approximate Word count = 1039
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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