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Who Is Mr. Hale's Death In A Jury Of Her Peers

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In “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell, there is a murder scenario, that is more to it than appears. Mr. Hale went over to the Wrights’ house to see if Mr. Wright still is not interested in a telephone. When he goes to the house and starts talking to Mrs. Wright, he finds out Mr. Wright is upstairs in their bedroom dead. Someone slipped a rope around Mr. Wright's neck and strangled him, and Mrs. Wright was the only one home who appeared to be home when this happened. but the men cannot find a motive for her to kill him. Although Mrs. Wright claims to have been asleep during her husband’s murder, the women conclude she strangled her husband, Mr. Wright, as evidence by the errant quilt patch, the broken bird cage, and the slaughtered canary. …show more content…

Wright’s, or Minnie’s, sewing pieces, there is a piece that is not clean and well done like the rest. Mrs Hale started fixing it and Mrs. Peters did not think that was a good idea, “A moment Mrs. Hale sat her hands folded over that sewing which was so unlike all the rest of the sewing. Then she had pulled a knot and drawn the threads. “Oh, what are you doing, Mrs. Hale?” asked the sheriff’s wife, startled. “Just pulling out a stitch or two that’s not sewed very good,” said Mrs. Hale mildly.” Mrs. Hale fixed the piece, because it would show anger, or a sudden change in mood. She understands why Minnie killed her husband, and she does not think Minnie deserves to be punished for it. She was able to finally escape her terrible husband. While working on this piece, she was contemplating on killing her husband. She was sewing to relax and calm down, but then she started thinking about why she should kill her husband and her work got sloppy and

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