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

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

“A Jury of Her Peers” was written by Susan Glaspell. The narrator of this story is Martha Hale. This story takes place around the 1930s-1940s. Martha Hale is visiting a friends home, whom was arrested on a murder charge, to look for evidence of the crime. Martha Hale cared deeply for others around her.

Mrs. Wright eventually deteriorated just has her environment, her rocking chair, and the canary. In “Jury of Her Peers” Minnie Wright’s situation illustrates many women of the world. In the story and in our society many woman are stereotyped in the marriage to complete all home duties and take of care the children while consumed in pleasing their husband. While doing so we lose ourselves. While reading the store I also realized how blessed I am to be symbolized as a modern

Wright’s defense, the men all head upstairs to go over the crime scene to search for clues. The women; Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters knew they were in the center of all the clues. “Women are used to worrying over trifles” Mr. Hale said, and because of that, the women uncovered all the clues that would lead to motive and the men would remain clueless. As for the messy kitchen that the attorney did notice but just chalked up to Mrs. Wright not being a good house wife, the ladies noticed that she was in fact in the middle of cleaning up. That half the table was wiped clean and the other half left as if she were interrupted. They also noticed that the towel that the attorney thought to be just thrown across the room was in fact covering a loaf of fresh bread that was to later be put in the bread box. They also knew that the dirty towel roller was probably that dirty from the man they sent to start the fire in the stove that morning so that the house would be warm by the time they arrived. The ladies were to gather some things to take to Mrs. Wright to the jail. They found her sewing basket under the corner table and were admiring the bright pieces and the log cabin pattern. They wondered if she was going to quilt it or knott it. The men thought this was funny and made fun of them. Unbeknownst to them that the ladies had just found what could be the evidence of Mrs. Wrights’ frame of mind. The ladies noticed that most of the

In Susan Glaspell's “ A Jury Of Her Peers” Mrs. Wright’s husband is found strangled in their bed and Mrs. Wright is in the living room calm but in the same way concerned, claiming she “sleeps sound” and didn’t wake up or hear anyone in their house that night. Mrs. Hale a lifetime friend of Mrs. Wright compares her to the canary saying “She was like a bird herself. Real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and-fluttery.” Although Mrs. Wright does not initially appear capable of murder, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale concluded Mrs. Wright strangled her husband as evidence by the crazily sewn quilt patch, the unhinged bird cage, and the mutilated canary.

The men were still looking for evidence, but women are replaying the scene of murder in there minds. They conclude that Mrs. Wright was sewing in kitchen, when Mr. Wright came into the kitchen and saw the bird. This explains why Mrs. Wright was sewing nervously. I assumed that Mr. Wright didn’t like birds, because they are very noisy referring to conversation with Mr. Hale about the joining party phone line. Mr. Wright must have seen the birdcage with the bird. He must have broken the birdcage and broke the bird’s neck. This was enough of a motive need for Mrs. Wright to kill her husband. The

"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 when discussing Mr. Wright. “‘...Look at it! Its neck-look at its neck! It’s all-other side to.’... ‘Somebody wrung its neck,’” (10) Unwrapping the bird from the small silt fabric like a Christmas present, the wives connected the bird and Mr. Wright’s death together. The canary’s neck snapped in half which killed from liveliness and singing. Mr. Wright died from a rope tied around his neck that would snap the cervical vertebrae and damage the spinal cord. Just like Mr. Wright wanted the singing to come to a dead halt, Mrs. Wright wanted the torture to end not caring about the repercussion that followed behind her actions. No one understood the loneliness and abuse granted each day to Minnie Wright until after the fact of killing Mr. Wright. If Mrs. Hale, Mrs. Peters, or Mrs. Gorman got set in the exact situation as Minnie, drastic measures would get taken to enable oneself the freedom to survive in a dark lifestyle lined with heartbreak and pain. To truly make sense of a particular situation, one must undergo it themself, which the women in A Jury of Her Peers get due to Mrs. Wright happens to reflect identical characteristics in each

After many, many years of being a very depressed housewife to what seemed like a very hardworking, selfish man, she was finally free. “She was rocking back and forth. She had her apron in her hand and was kind of-pleating it. (Glaspell)” I felt that Mrs. Wright felt like she had did something for herself, even though it is illegal to kill someone, it was portrayed that her husband always spoke for her. When the county attorney and sheriff were questioning her, she never stated that she was guilty of it or not. She just mentioned that someone pulled Mr. Wright out of bed and hung him with a noose. Mrs. Wright was taken to jail, in which she feels more at ease from. Upon sitting in jail, the sheriff’s wife and Mrs. Hale find a dead bird hidden in Mrs. Wright’s sewing kit. They come to find out that Mr. Wright had killed the dead bird because of the singing, which was a very important role in Mrs. Wright’s life. Mrs. Hide during the court hearing hid the bird and quilt in her pocket. The court confirmed that the case was clear, with only one minor detail missing which could have been the bird, but Mrs. Hide did not tell about the

In the end, use this expertise pays off for both Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters as they both found the most crucial clue behind Mr. Wright’s murder. In fact out of respect for Minnie, the pair refused to give concrete details to the Sherriff on their discovery. “Well ladies” (Glaspell 169) says the county attorney in a seemingly confident tone “have you decided whether she was going to quilt it or knot it?” (Glaspell 169). Mrs. Hale reluctantly responds “We think that she was going to knot it” (Glaspell 169).

In “Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell Mr. Wright has just been found dead by the cause of strangulation. Despite the fact that his wife Minnie is the prime suspect, she has not yet been arrested as a result of a lack of evidence. Consequently, three men who are joined by their wives, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, have been sent to the Wright’s house to begin the investigation. Finding clues is turning out to be harder than the men thought, however, the women have come across more than enough incriminating evidence to convict Mrs. Wright. Although she does not initially appear capable of murder, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale conclude Mrs. Wright, in fact, strangled her husband as evidence by Mrs. Wright’s quilt, the unhinged birdcage, and poor

Hale her neighbor says that the only time Minnie wright seemed happy was when she was not married. Mrs. Hale says, “I heard that she used to wear pretty clothes and be lively, when she was Minnie foster. But with thirty years of marriage, Mrs. Wright is now worried about her canned preserves freezing, and not having her apron whilst she is in jail. Mrs. Peters, the sheriff’s wife suggested that Mrs. Wright wanted her apron so that she can “feel more natural”; because that is what she is use to.

The quilt is one major clue as to how Minnie killed her husband. The women were trying to figure out if she was going to sew or not the quilt. Well, Mr. Wright was strangled in a strange manner, just how the knot was messed up in red string. The men laughed it off butt Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters knew what had happened.

The women empower themselves through silence, particularly in the kitchen communicating and reflecting upon things around them in the limited space they were given. The men dismiss the kitchen finding nothing that is relevant to the murder case. The men keep crisscrossing through the kitchen, ignoring and not realizing they could find the vital evidence through trivial details. Even though they were having difficulty in finding clues that lead to the murder. While the women were alone looking through Minnie’s kitchen they found the most valuable evidence the “missing piece to men’s puzzle” (Holstein 283). Mrs. Hale found the dead bird strangled in the sewing box telling “Mrs. Peters-look at it! Its neck! Look at its neck!” (782). Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters recognize the bird was strangled brutally “their eyes meet. A look of growing comprehension, of horror” (Glaspell 782). Both of them realized the bird was killed the same way as Mr. Wright with the rope around their neck. The strangled bird represents Minnie Foster how her freedom and joy was strangled to death. When the men came in the kitchen, the county attorney noticed the bird cage, wondering if the bird flew away, but Mrs. Hale lied and said “we think the- cat got it” ( Glaspell 782). The county attorney seek only visible evidence for murder he was wasn’t thinking critically what it may mean. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters covered the evidence keeping it between themselves for their own knowledge. They

    Even so, the domestic system the men have set up for their wives and their disregard for them after the rules and boundaries have been laid down prove to be the men's downfall. The evidence that Mrs. Wright killed her husband is woven into Mrs. Hale's and Mrs. Peters's conversations about Mrs. Wright's sawing and her pet bird. The knots in her quilt match those in the rope used to strangle Mr. Wright, and the bird, the last symbol of Mrs. Wright's vitality to be taken by her husband, is found dead. Unable to play the role of subservient wife anymore, Mrs. Wright is foreign to herself and therefore lives a lie. As Mrs. Hale proclaims, "It looks as if she didn't know what she was about!" (1177).