A Jury of Her Peers
"...it seemed she couldn't cross it now was simply because she hadn't crossed it before" (203). Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters stepped into something without knowing the weight of it. Along with fear and uncertainty, the sheriff's wife and an old friend, of the accused, Minni Foster, agreed to walk through the door of a lonely, cold and bitter house.To be ones peer it to be ones equal. Without the understanding of one to another, there is no common ground, and without a common ground there is no intuition. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are lost in their own thoughts, having troubles convicting Mrs. Wright for something as awful as murder. Sensing something strange about the house, the women try and justify what Mrs. Wright may have done to her husband. While going through and cleaning her pots and pans, the two women feel sympathy and some kind of loyalty to Minni Foster. Her fruit was gone, her sugar was half put away, her table half cleaned, no bird singing back to her from inside the broken cage. How awful it must have been to live there, with no company in the hollow. Unlike Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale, Minni Foster was alone most of the time; cleaning with torn rags, cooking on an old, worn out stove. With no
The title of this story played a major role in itself because it reveals the feeling of the two women, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters. The way the two of them, perfect strangers, were brought together on another woman's behalf, with the insight of compassion for their equal, their peer. Today, I don't think Mrs. Wright would have been proven guilty-especially with no clues and no motives found. If this case were tried now, not much of a difference would happen; of course further investigation and further prosecution would take place. However, in the long run, most women will be proven innocent, or have it known that there was a significant reason why she lead to murder. Unless, of course, it's her children she murdered. Throughout history, women have been on trial for killing their husbands, their boyfriends, their fathers. Why? For domestic abuse, for rape, for neglect and brutality. Most women who've felt any dosage of that will not convict another woman, whether she's guilty or not. Men will never fully understand women, as women will never fully understand men. The men were looking through the kitchen, unconcerned with what was left out, with what was forgotten. Many things that seem to petty to a
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Approximate Word count = 818
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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