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A Jury of Her Peers
Although many possible arguments emerge in interpreting "A Jury of Her Peers," the fact that Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale intuit the motive for Mrs. Wright to kill her husband while the men miss all...
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A Jury of Her Peers
In the story "A Jury of Her Peers," we learn from Mrs. Hale some interesting insights about Minnie Wright (formerly Foster) and her marriage dynamics. We first learn that Mrs. Hale never liked...
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A Jury of Her Peers
In Elizabeth Glaspell's short story, the county attorney first notices that the jars of fruit have broken with the cold. He stands on a chair to inspect the upper cupboard and finds the burst jars....
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A Jury of Her Peers
Mr. Wright was found dead in his bed with a rope around his neck. As the story unfolds, the irony of the way he died becomes clearer. Three types of irony related to the cause of death are...
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A Jury of Her Peers
During Glaspell's classic short story "A Jury of Her Peers," Minnie Wright does not appear in her own house. Instead, she is absent. To be specific, she's in jail. This is indicated in passing,...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale are in conflict with the men because of their condescending attitudes. Shortly after Mr. Hale directs the sheriff and county attorney into the Wrights' home where he has...
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A Jury of Her Peers
The climax of Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers," the moment of highest emotional intensity, occurs when Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale decide to hide the damning evidence of the dead bird. Because...
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A Jury of Her Peers
In Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers" there is a feminine communion between the two women, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, but because of their interpersonal relationships and their ways of...
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A Jury of Her Peers
It is ironic that the story revolves around the women's decisions because throughout the narrative, the male characters mitigate the importance of the women and the kitchen. As it turns out, the...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Mrs. Hale is a dynamic and round character in the story "A Jury of Her Peers." Even though she always suspects something is not entirely clear at the scene of the crime, her discoveries...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters end up protecting Minnie Wright by hiding the strangled canary, which could be used as key evidence against her in her murder trial. Although Mrs. Peters is the sheriff's...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Before Mrs. Hale, Mrs. Peters, and the three men even get to the domestic setting, Glaspell sets the mood with the external setting. Describing the Wright house, she notes: It looked very...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters each have a personal reason for not turning over the evidence to the attorney and sheriff, and they have one reason that they share. Once the women discover the bent bird...
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A Jury of Her Peers
In the short story "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell, five people--three men and two women--investigate the farmhouse of Minnie Wright, a woman accused of murdering her husband. While the...
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A Jury of Her Peers
In a short story, the rising action continues to build until the climax, and after the climax, the action falls till the end in a portion of the story called the denouement. In a longer work of...
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A Jury of Her Peers
The names of the women in "A Jury of Her Peers" give insight into how Susan Glaspell wants readers to view them. Martha Hale, the neighbor to the suspected murderer, seems to be a "hale and hearty"...
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A Jury of Her Peers
There is no rubric or pre-designed behavioral profile that is expected of sheriffs' wives to follow. To be fair to Mrs. Peters, she is a pretty well-rounded and dynamic character throughout the...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Susan Glaspell uses several powerful symbols in her short story "A Jury of Her Peers." When the attorney washes his hands in the kitchen sink, he remarks on the dirty roller towel, but Mrs. Hale...
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A Jury of Her Peers
In Susan Glaspell's A Jury of Her Peers the men are searching for evidence that Mrs. Wright has killed her husband. They search the house, both inside and out, searching for a motive. Considering...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters figure out a lot about Mrs. Wright in the story. They discuss, first off, what Mrs. Wright was like when she was younger. She was involved with a choir, was seen around...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Any description of John Wright that appears in "A Jury of Her Peers" is made as indirect characterization. This means that the information comes from the other characters, or as a result of the...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Susan Glaspell is successfully able to transform her play Trifles into what would become her most famous story, "A Jury of Her Peers". In reality, it is easier to extrapolate the differences...
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A Jury of Her Peers
It is a much changed woman from Minnie Foster who sits in the jail as the story begins. Mrs. Wright has become a rather nondescript and withdrawn woman, while Minnie Foster was vivacious and...
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A Jury of Her Peers
In the story "A Jury of Her Peers" the men attempted to gain information and clues from the case from the outside-in. This means that they will primarily look at everything that they can see in the...
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A Jury of Her Peers
John Wright's name is ironic in a number of ways. In fact, the use of the name "Wright", which is a homophone of "right", is used on purpose in the story "A Jury of Her Peers" to delineate exactly...
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A Jury of Her Peers
The men are there to look for evidence. They essentially are looking for some motive and some way to connect Minnie Wright to the crime. The women end up finding the essential evidence and in the...
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A Jury of Her Peers
On the day that Mr. Hale discovered the murder of Mr. Wright, he and his son had departed early in the morning with a load of potatoes, but they never completed the trip. As the farmer and his son...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Mr. Wright is the man found dead in his home. His wife is Minnie Wright, the main suspect in his murder. But Martha Hale also refers to her as Minnie Foster. This was her maiden name. Her married...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Mood and tone are similar things, but are not the same. Be aware of the differences when analyzing a work of literature. The tone refers to the attitude of the author toward the situation of the...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Since the plot centers around the discovery of a motive to explain the murder in "A Jury of Her Peers," and the clue to this motive is apparently discovered by Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, it...
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A Jury of Her Peers
The title of this story is ironic because of the pronoun. The only people who can really understand Mrs. Wright's action are women, her peers. However, the only people responsible for doing the...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Mr. Henry Peters is the sheriff of Dickson County, where the murder of John Wright takes place. There is some direct characterization of Mr. Peters. He is described by Martha Hale as someone who...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Because of the men's chauvinistic attitudes and deprecating comment about women's foolish attention to trifles, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters retreat to the kitchen and, as they straighten things, they...
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A Jury of Her Peers
In "A Jury of Her Peers," a fictionalized version of a true ax murder, the method of murder is important because Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, who make the discovery of the dead canary, are able to...
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A Jury of Her Peers
From a purely legal perspective, namely, based on what "justice" means in terms of having an actual jury of her peers decide a verdict for Minnie, the answer is "No". Justice was not served the...
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A Jury of Her Peers
The settings of the Wright farm in the expansive farmland of Dickson County, Iowa, the town that represents Indianola, where the real woman represented by Minnie Foster lived as a young woman, and...
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A Jury of Her Peers
As the term implies, “interpretive” literature aims to analyze and help the reader understand the nature of characters through their behavior choices and emotions. It is different than typical...
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A Jury of Her Peers
In Susan Glaspell's story "A Jury of Her Peers," it's important to understand that Mrs. Wright, the woman suspected of killing her husband, was never going to have a trial in front of such a jury....
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A Jury of Her Peers
In any work of literature, the rising action comprises an event, or a series of minor events, that come together to move the action, the plot, forward. In the story "A Jury of Her Peers", the event...
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A Jury of Her Peers
In both Glaspell's short story and her play of the same name, remarks are made by the men about how women focus upon insignificant things, and nothing in the kitchen can be of any consequence in...
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A Jury of Her Peers
The climactic moment when the two women find the bird with its neck wrung is when they both put all the clues together and realize that this was the reason Minnie Foster finally snapped and killed...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Susan Glaspell weaves a murder mystery that stumps the men within the story but the wives are able to piece together the details. One such detail is the canary.To understand what the canary has to...
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A Jury of Her Peers
This is a very good assessment of the symbolism of the jars in A Jury of her Peers. The play based on the same story, Trifles, also points to the fact that when the Sheriff and the district...
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A Jury of Her Peers
There are five characters who appear in the story: Sheriff Peters, and his wife; Lewis Hale, and his wife Martha; and Henderson, a county attorney. There are two further characters who are not...
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A Jury of Her Peers
The conversations of the men and those of the women differ significantly. The men - sheriff Peters, the county attorney Henderson, and Mr Hale - come across as loud, brisk and hearty, as they busy...
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A Jury of Her Peers
This is a rather problematic question, as it is difficult to state with any certainty that any of the characters in "A Jury of Her Peers" suffer from mental illness in the same way as the narrator...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers" is full of great ironies, and the quote you mention is one of them. The sheriff and his wife meet the Hales and the county attorney and the scene of a crime....
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A Jury of Her Peers
Based upon a true incident of February 11, 1882, in which a farmer was murdered and his wife subsequently charged and tried for this murder, "A Jury of Her Peers" chronicles the life of Mrs....
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A Jury of Her Peers
The story “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell was based on an actual murder which the author covered as a newspaper reporter. Originally written as a one-act play, Glaspell rewrote the...
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The Story of an Hour
Both Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" and Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers" deal with the late 19th (and early 20th) century very limited role of women in American society. Women were to stay in the...
