thoughts or ideas that clash. The main conflict in this short story is women versus men.

Mrs. Hale also has an emotional conflict with herself. The murder of Mr. Wright has all

the characters searching for evidence to convict Mrs. Wright. Mr. Hale, Mr. Peters, and

Young Henderson, the men, pursue extremely hard to find any hard evidence that will

incriminate Mrs. Wright. Mrs. Hale feels at fault for not ever going to see her, she feels if

she had gone to see her more often the murder would not have occurred. Mrs. Peters also

has conflict with herself, she must decide whether to remain faithful to her husband or go

along with Mrs. Hale, a woman. Conflicts in a story create a sense of excitement to keep

Mrs. Hale's conflict with herself gives her a guilty conscience. She feels

decisions. Mrs. Hale's conflict ends as she too knows Mrs. Wright is guilty of murder,

she married, Mrs. Hale had no longer visited. Mrs. Hale punishes herself in guilt as she

and he made her who she was. She was unhappy and she did something about it. The

bitter man and if the home had been more cheerful she would have visited the Wrights'

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Approximate Word count = 628
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)