Minne Foster Character Analysis

In “A Jury of Her Peers” Minnie Wright demonstrates the deranging effect of isolation. She grew up a joyful young women with all her peers, but drifted away when she became Mrs. Wright and wedded Mr. John Wright. Minnie Wright became socially and emotionally isolated in her own home. This caused her to lose her sanity. The effects that isolation had on Minnie Wright negatively affected her own life and the life of those around her, especially including her husband who she murdered. As the story “A Jury of Her Peers,” progresses it becomes more evident that Minnie Foster is in fact for sure the person who is responsible for the murder of her husband. In the time period “A Jury of her Peers” was written women were also victims of a treatment called the “rest cure.” The rest cure isolated women away from society and in some cases drove them mentally insane as shown in “The Yellow Wallpaper”. The story of “The Yellow Wallpaper” is written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

The narrator sets the scene; the cold kitchen of the farmhouse the day after John Wright was found murdered in his own bed with a rope around his neck. Nothing has been touched except a fire has been started on the stove to warm the place a bit for when the sheriff and the county attorney would arrive to access the situation and look for a motive. Mrs. Wright who had been found the morning before just rocking back and forth in the kitchen rocker and pleating her apron that lay on her lap, over and over

In “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell, Minnie Foster Wright is the main character, even though the reader never sees Mrs. Wright. The story begins as Mrs. Hale joins the county attorney, Mr. Henderson; the sheriff, Mr. Peters; Mrs. Peters; and her husband in a “big two-seated buggy” (188). The team men are headed the Wright house to investigate Mr. Wright’s murder. Mrs. Peters is going along to gather some belongings for Mrs. Wright, who is currently being held in jail, and Mrs. Hale has been asked to accompany Mrs. Peters. As the investigation is conducted throughout the story, the reader is given a sense of how women were treated during this time and insight into why the women ultimately keep evidence from the men.

      If it is ironic that the women find the clues, it is even more ironic that they find them in the mundane household items to which the men attribute so little significance. "Nothing here but kitchen things," the men mistakenly think (287). Because of their weak intuition, they do not see the household as indicative of John's and Minnie's characters. They do not see beyond the cheerless home to John Wright's grim nature, nor do the dilapidated furnishings provide

"A Jury of Her Peers" opens with debate encompassing Minnie Foster Wright, who is in prison on suspicion that she killed her spouse by strangling him. Mrs. Wright's story is told by implication through a discussion between Martha Hale, whose spouse uncovered the grouping of John Wright, Mrs. Diminishes, the wife of the neighborhood sheriff. The sheriff asks Mrs. Robust to go with them to the Wright's house so she can stay with his wife while the men explore the homicide scene. Put together by condition, the ladies structure a prompt bond as they start assembling some of Minnie's possessions to accumulate to her prison cell. Presuming that there is nothing in the kitchen aside from "kitchen things," the men start their examination in the upstairs of the house and in an outside animal dwelling place. Left alone in Minnie's kitchen, in any case, the two ladies start uncovering their pieces of information about Minnie's conceivable intention in executing her spouse. Step by step, Mrs. Sound and Mrs. Diminishes start perceiving insights about Minnie's life that escape the notice of their spouses. They perceive Minnie's forsaken, separated presence, her broken furniture, the once-over kitchen where she needed to cook, and the battered clothes she was compelled to

Wright's life in their hands to do with what they will.  Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale find the evidence needed to convict Minnie Wright and they suppress it.  They were women who understood the plight of loneliness and the death of a beloved pet.  Mrs. Hale understood that Mr. Wright was a hard man to live with and she knew that he had not only killed Mrs. Wright's bird but he had also killed the real Minnie Foster, the girl she had been.  The men in the story, Sheriff Peters, Mr. Hale, and the young unmarried County Attorney, see only surface things.  They believe that the motive for John's murder lies in the bedroom or in the barn.  The men flounder around ignorantly searching for something they will never find because they can not think as Minnie Wright did.  If the women had told them about the discovery of the dead bird, they would probably laugh and say that the women needed to go back to their quilting and their jellies.  The ragged and uneven sewing that suggests a misplaced state of mind in Minnie Wright would also have been laughed at.  The men wanted to find something concrete that would easily convince an all male jury but they never would.  To men, dead canaries are dead canaries, they would never read into it what Mrs. Hale, Mrs. Peters, and Mrs. Wright did.

Sheriff Henry Peters and county attorney George Henderson visit the Wright home to investigate the murder of John Wright. His wife, Minnie Wright, has been arrested for the murder, and the two men have come to collect evidence against her. To that end, they have brought Lewis Hale, Minnie Wright's neighbor, who was the first person other than Minnie to see John's dead body. Hale will be a witness for the prosecution at the trial. With the three men are Mrs. Peters, the sheriff's wife, and Mrs. Hale, Lewis's wife, who have come to collect some of Minnie's personal effects to bring to her in prison. The sheriff is the first to enter the Wrights' little farmhouse. He and the other two men gather around the hot stove for warmth while the women

Before she married John, she used to sing in the choir, she was always very active in her community. After she got married, she never interacted with her community; she was always “lonely”. Minnie was a housewife alone all day while John was away at work. Minnie and John never had any children, "Not having children makes less work—but it makes a quiet house" (Susan Glaspell, 21). Mrs. Hale says, “Just to pass the time of day with him [John]… [Was] Like a raw wind that gets to the bone." (Susan Glaspell, 22). Minnie must have been miserable living with John, so she took up the bird. She possibly treated the bird as her child, singing to it and caring for it. She was devastated to have seen the birds’ neck wrung the way it was. She must have mourned the death of the bird the same as the death of a child. Mrs. Hale describes Minnie Foster as, “kind of like a bird herself -- real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and – fluttery”(Susan Glaspell, 22). When Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters find Minnie's birdcage in the cupboard, they do not realize the importance of it until they find the dead bird with its neck “wrung” (Susan Glaspell, 23). Mrs. Hale says to Mrs. Peters, “No, Wright wouldn't like the bird -- a thing that sang. She used to sing. He killed that, too” (Glaspell, 25). Mr. Wright’s presumed killing is a “symbolic attack” (Brian Sutton, 172) on his wife, and

In the short story "A Jury of Her Peers" a woman named Minnie Wright is accused of the murder of her husband. Minnie Wright is a farmer's wife and is also isolated from the out side world. There is an investigation that takes place in the home of the murder. There are three men that are involved on the case and two women accompany, but are not there to really help solve the murder. These two women will

I believe the reasons for Mrs. Hale and Mrs.peters to hide the evidence from their husband was because they were able to understand Minnie foster wright situation. minnie foster wright and her husband did not have kids so she was alone probably in need of family so she ended up buying a bird she simply loved. so when Mrs. Hale and Mrs.peters found that the bird was killed it was and wrapped and placed in a nice box it was obvious that something was not right in that marriage. having her bird killed was the motive for her to kill her husband if her husband really did kill her bird it does explain a lot of the other details they noticed. from why she was worried over her fruit perverse and why she was sewing the quilt nervously toward the end.

Incidentally, circumstantial evidence has consistently proven to be more trustworthy than direct evidence (Zamir, Harlev and Ritov, 2017). Considering this, it is at this point in the story, an eyewitness named Lewis Hale is introduced by the author. Hale states to the sheriff and the County Attorney that he had stopped by the Wright residence to speak with John about going in with him on a party telephone. Hale recounts to the two men that he knocked on the door and thinking that he heard someone tell him to come in he entered the residence. Upon entering the residence, he stated that he found Minnie sitting in a rocking chair not looking at him and just rocking back and forth. In any case, Hale stated that when he asked to see John, Minnie just laughed, or as he stated: “I guess you would call it a laugh” (Kirszner and Mandell, 2012, p. 869). According to Hale, when he asked again to see John, Minnie told him no and stated: “Cause he’s dead” (Kirszner and Mandell, 2012, p. 869). Without showing any excitement, Minnie pointed upstairs when asked where John was at, and told Hale that he had died from a rope around his neck. As a matter of fact, Hale states that he went upstairs after getting Harry, whom he had rode with to the residence, and found John lying in their bed dead with a rope around his neck. Even so Hale learns that Minnie had not

The stillness of the lonesome Wright home clearly tells the story of why Minnie Wright killed Mr. Wright. The topic of my paper will be the story that the women hear in the objects found within the home.

The audience and characters assume that Minnie is guilty, but with due motivation. “Two housewives, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, accompanying their husbands who are investigating the murder of a man by his wife, discover in the kitchen the clues which indicate the motive of the murderess” (Alkalay-Gut 1). The audience assumes that Minnie’s solitude, imposed on her by her husband, has lead her to be depressed. “Alienated from her husband, powerless and silenced by the circumstances of her marriage, and isolated from her neighbors, Minnie is an unseen woman long before she murders John Wright” (Noe 16). What if Minnie’s solitude was self-inflicted? Just as Mrs. Hale could have visited Minnie, Minnie could have visited Mrs. Hale and other women in the area, but chose not to. The audience assumes that John Wright treats Minnie coldly or harshly. Mrs Hale says, “No, Wright wouldn’t like the bird—a thing that sang. She used to sing. He killed that, too.” (Glaspell 1391). “Her life has been made miserable by an individual who has complete control of her” (Alkalay-Gut 3). What

Minnie Wright should be found guilty of the murder of her husband, Mr. Wright. Gaining knowledge of her psychological state in combination with evidence found at the scene of the crime, it is clear that Minnie Foster had a clear motive and committed a fatal act of revenge against her husband. Reflecting on the morning before, Mr. Hale recalls to his audeience the details of his visit to see Mr. Wright. Upon entering the home, Hale tells Minne Foster that he' s there to see John. Minnie is looking down and pleating at her apron, with no response, she is asked by hale once again if he can see John and she says "No".

While the men were off looking for evidence besides what they considered trifles, the women explored what was the life of Minnie, they saw her anxiety in the sewing and knew how upset she would be about her preserves. Besides this, they understood how lonely it would be to be all alone with no one besides John Wright, who most knew as a cold man. Even if they didn’t see the abuse in the Wright’s relationship, they still saw that he was insensitive and didn’t care about her feelings. The two women begin to “participate in this vision of solidarity,” (Holstein) after they understand why Minnie murdered her husband, they decide to cover it up. When talking about the items Minnie requested, the two women remark how she wanted items that wouldn’t be very helpful in a jail cell, however, these items are to provide a sense of stability for Minnie, Mr. Hale remarked that she looked like “she didn't know what she was going to do next” (Glaspell, 1006). Victims of abuse commonly gain a dependence towards their abuser, as they are the largest controlling factor in their life. Her wanting of an apron or her sewing projects is just something for her to hold onto the