Sisterhood In Mrs Hale

First, looking around the kitchen, the women notice that Minnie had left a lot of things “half done.” There was a table with “one half… wiped clean, the other half messy,” and a bucket of sugar half-filled. Minnie must have kept getting interrupted from her work. Maybe it was her husband or maybe it was her own thinking. The women know that to leave something unfinished it must have been something very importimportantnt. The second piece of evidence the women find is the log cabin quilt that Minnie had been working on. All of the quilt squares are sewn “nice and even”, except for one. The square looks as if Minnie “didn’t know what she was about.” It seems as if Minnie was nervous while sewing it. The women find it weird that Minnie was so careless on that square, when she was so meticulous in sewing the others. The final, and possibly most important, piece of evidence is the dead bird that the women found in Minnie’s sewing basket. Mr. Hale, we assume, “wrung its neck,” and it was something that Minnie really cared about. Mrs. Peters remembers a time when, “ there was a boy (who) took a hatchet,” to her kitten. She knows what it feels like to want to hurt someone who hurt something you care about. In the end, the women decide to hide the evidence from the men. Susan Glaspell’s use of logos is

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

"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

In "A Jury of Her Peers" Susan Glaspell shows how human bonding can override legalities that society has. This is shown by Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters bonding with Minnie by understanding her daily life as they are in her home. The two women feel a connection with Minnie because their lives are very similar to that of hers. By the two women understanding and having a connection with Minnie they notice the small trifles that leads to them finding evidence and motive for Minnie murdering her husband.

For while the men are looking actively for the "smoking gun," the women are confronted with more subtle clues in spite of themselves and even try to hide from each other what they intuitively know. But they do not fool each other for long, as Glaspell describes, "Their eyes met - something flashed to life, passed between them; then, as if with an effort, they seemed to pull away from each other" (295). However, they cannot pull away, for they are bound by a power they do not even comprehend: "We all go through the same things -  it's all just a different kind of the same thing!...why do you and I understand? Why do we know - what we know this minute?" (303). They do not realize that it is intuition they share, that causes them to "[see] into things, [to see] through a thing to something else...." (294). Though sympathetic to Minnie Wright, the women cannot deny the damning clues that lead them to the inescapable conclusion of her guilt.

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

In “A Jury of Her Peers,” Minnie Wright grows up in Dickson county along with: Mr. Lewis Hale, Mrs. Martha Hale, Harry Hale, Mrs. Peters, Mr. Peters, Mr. John Wright, and Mr. George Henderson. Minnie Foster is known to others as a sweet and cheerful young girl. After  marrying John Wright, Minnie Wright is not seen or spoken of throughout the town, “Time and time again it had been in her mind ‘I ought to go over and see Minnie Foster’--she still thought of her as Minnie Foster, though for twenty years she had been

As the women walk through the house, they begin to get a feel for what Mrs. Wright’s life is like. They notice things like the limited kitchen space, the broken stove, and the broken jars of fruit and begin to realize the day-to-day struggles that Mrs. Wright endured. The entire house has a solemn, depressing atmosphere. Mrs. Hale regretfully comments that, for this reason and the fact that Mr. Wright is a difficult man to be around, she never came to visit her old friend, Mrs. Wright.

The women in this story take offense quietly to such a comment, for they understand just how hard it is to be a wife of a farmer and maintain the home. Minnie’s kitchen is untidy with evidence of a job interrupted. The women notice and understand that no women would leave their kitchen in such disarray unless something interrupted their work. The women also are offended by the county attorney’s comment, “Dirty towels, not much of a housekeeper, would you say ladies?” Both Martha and Mrs. Peters understand that both the man and the women are responsible for making the house dirty. Mrs. Hale responds, “There is a great deal of work to be done on a farm,” which shows her growing empathy for Minnie. The women remain in the kitchen, the main setting of this short story as the men go off upstairs to the scene of the murder and out to the barn in search of clues to a motive for this crime. The author never takes the reader to these locations. The reader is never informed of what happens with the men on their search, instead we are focused on the women and the kitchen, as this is how the author illustrates the main theme of this story.

The theme that I see in the freewriting is the story that the lonesome house tells the women, especially Mrs. Hale. The men are looking for evidence, but the women see, feel and hear in the silence. Murder has not been the experience of Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, but they understand the emotions, the heart and the anger of Mrs. Wright. Minnie was silent for so long, she exploded in anger at the end.

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.

One critic, Leonard Mustazza, argues that Mrs. Hale recruits Mrs. Peters “as a fellow ‘juror’ in the case, moving the sheriff’s wife away from her sympathy for her husband’s position and towards identification with the accused woman” (494). Though this is true, Mrs. Peters also comes to her own understanding. What she sees in the kitchen led her to understand Minnie’s lonely plight as the wife of an abusive farmer. The first evidence Mrs. Peters reaches understanding on her own surfaces in the following passage: “The sheriff’s wife had looked from the stove to the sink to the pail of water which had been

Second, Mrs. Wright has been dead inside but her body was still alive. As the men survey the mess in the kitchen they completely miss the significance of the untidy room. They attribute the mess to poor housekeeping instead of recognizing its significance as a breakdown in the Wright’s home. The women, unlike the men, begin to understand through these unfinished chores that something has gone terribly wrong in Minnie’s world. Mrs. Hale stated, “Not having children makes less work—but it makes a quiet house, and Wright out to work all day, and no company when he did some in” (11). “Wright was close. I think maybe that’s why she kept so much to herself. She didn’t even belong to the Ladies Aid. I suppose she felt she couldn’t do her part, and

From this play, I can predict on the Minnie’s tragic life during her marriage with John Wright, until she took a crazy decision by killing him. According to Mrs. Hale’s point of view that Minnie such a cheer and happy girls during her teen years, it makes the readers realized that John Wright is not a good husband, as he tortured her life throughout their marriage. I found that this story from the play still exists in this modern era, and Susan Glaspell have done the great work by published this play to give big awareness to people. For my part, I think if I were Minnie in this story, I would ask John Wright for a divorce instead of killing him, even though women did not have any rights to make any decision during that period and divorce considered to be as a bad thing, but maybe that it is the only right thing to do as I, Minnie, was already bear the pain for too long until I could no longer see any solution to settle down the issue. Hence, every woman deserves to be happy and have rights on making choices. Thus, Minnie would not kill him, her husband, if she has chances on getting a

We are not born to hate; we are taught to hate. Kathryn Stockett, the author of The Help, and many other cowriters formed an uplifting, inspirational story about women in Jackson, Mississippi, during the 1960s. Aibileen Clark, an African American maid; her best friend Minny Jackson, also an African American maid in the south; and Skeeter Pheelan, a southern white writer, set out to write a book to bring awareness to what is was like living as a black maid in Jackson. As a white female living in the south today, this story, in my opinion, exhibits a theme of sisterhood and the risks taken to keep the bonds of sisterhood intact. These women went against society’s views of how white and black women should live to compose a story in hopes of making a change in the south for themselves and the ones they loved.