A Jury of Her Peers Questions and Answers
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What is the significance of the story's title?
A Jury of Her Peers is a fitting title because it describes the understanding that was between the women as to what Minnie Wright had gone through, and they acquitted her of murder. Minnie had been...
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In "A Jury of Her Peers," what are the reasons Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters might feel solidarity with Minnie Wright...
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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What is the setting of "A Jury of Her Peers"?
The setting of this story is in a rural American community, Dickson County, at the turn of the twentieth century. This setting is extremely important to establishing the plot and themes of the...
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What is the relationship between Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale? How do they react to one another and to Mrs. Wright?
Martha Hale and Mrs. Peters don't know each other well as they travel to Minnie Wright's farm with their husbands on a cold morning. Mrs. Hale thinks that the small, slight Mrs. Peters doesn't look...
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how are the the men and women portrayed in jury of her peers?
In "A Jury of her Peers" the men and women of the unnamed town are presented with the same clues behind the murder of Mr. Wright. However, the women are the ones who solve, cover up, and...
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What's the significance of Mrs Peters' recollections of incidents in her life: her kitten and her baby's death. What...
Mrs Hale is initially the most empathetic of Minnie Wright’s life, but, as she recalls specific events from her own life, Mrs Peters begins to understand Minnie’s plight. When the dead canary is...
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What is the climax of the story "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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What is the point of view in "A Jury of Her Peers"?
Susan Glaspell uses the third person limited omniscient point of view in "A Jury of Her Peers." This means that an outside narrator tells the story but only allows the reader inside the head of one...
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In "A Jury of Her Peers," why do Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale hide the crucial evidence that proves Mrs. Wright's motive...
In Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers," a group of people search the farmhouse of a woman who is believed to have murdered her husband. The short story examines and illuminates differences in...
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A Jury Of Her Peers Theme
A major theme in "A Jury of Her Peers" is crime and punishment. While Minnie may have committed the murder of her husband, she is tried and found not guilty by the women who visit her home. By...
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Why has Mrs. Peters come along to the Wrights's home?
In "A Jury of Her Peers," Mrs. Peters, the sheriff's wife, accompanies her husband and the county attorney to the home of Mrs. Wright, who has been arrested the previous day on suspicion of...
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Why is the title "A Jury of her Peers" a good title for a short story?
The title is effective for this story as Mrs Hale and Mrs Peters decide to conceal the evidence which would indicate Minnie’s guilt in the murder of her husband. The men are unable to work out that...
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What are the differences between Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters in terms of status, background, and strength of character...
The story is told from the point of view of Mrs. Hale. Mrs. Hale is a large woman, bigger than Mrs. Peters, and more forthright. She is a farm woman and a neighbor of Mrs. Wright. Mrs. Hale, unlike...
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Of what importance are Mrs. Hale's descriptions of Minnie as a young woman and the Wright's marriage?
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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What is the main conflict in "A Jury of Her Peers"?
The main conflict in “A Jury of Her Peers” is one of perception as three men and two women try to discover Minnie Wright's motive for murdering her husband. No one has any real doubt that Minnie is...
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Was justice served in "A Jury of Her Peers"?
Because the murderer will likely not go to prison or be convicted of her crime, you can say that justice is not served. However, the characters in the story and the author seem to feel that Minnie...
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What is the irony in "A Jury of Her Peers"?
Situational irony occurs when events in a work of literature turns out to be the opposite of what was expected. In "A Jury of Her Peers," the men who arrive at the Wright's farm to investigate a...
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What does the fact that Minnie Foster and her husband, Mr. Wright, were childless reveal about their marriage?
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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Why are the women able to discover the motive for the murder better than the men in "A Jury of Her Peers"?
The women in Susan Glaspell's story "A Jury of Her Peers" do not merely discover the motive for the murder better than the men. They discover the motive and the men do not. This is partly because...
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Who kills Mr Wright in the story of "A Jury of Her Peers"?
Through the two women, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, we are informed that Minnie Wright killed her own husband. She strangled him because he was "strangling" her life. They believe that only a...
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In terms of character type, how do the main characters in "A Jury of Her Peers" relate to the story's plot and...
Because Susan Glaspell's story "A Jury of Her Peers" has a definite feminist perspective, it is the women of the narrative who are the dynamic characters, while the men are either flat or stock...
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In "A Jury of Her Peers," what significance do you see in the womens' names?
The names of the characters from the story "A Jury of Her Peers" are significant, lending added meaning to Glaspell's narrative. It is interesting, too, that all three of the female characters have...
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In "A Jury of Her Peers," why did the women choose to hide the evidence of finding the bird?
Let's first discuss what happens when the women find the dead bird. When they find the "pretty" box, Mrs. Hale notices that there is something wrapped up in there, in a piece of silk. "Oh, Mrs....
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What evidence does the jury have against Mrs. Wright in "A Jury of Her Peers"?
In Susan Glaspell’s short story “A Jury of Her Peers,” the murder of John Wright is being investigated by Sheriff Peters. He brings along Mr. Hale, a neighboring farmer, and George Henderson, the...
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Do you think Mrs. Wright was abused? Explain your answer with evidence from the play.
The one-act play "Trifles" and the short story "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell tell the same story. They are concerned with a murder that takes place at a remote farmhouse in Iowa. Mrs....
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What are some of the symbols in "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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Why did Glaspell change the title of Trifles to "Jury of Her Peers"?
While there is no definitive answer, it would seem that Glaspell gave her short story a different title from her play that was published a year earlier in order to distinguish it from this play,...
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In the story "A Jury of Her Peers," who are Minnie Wright's peers and why?
Minnie's peers are other women--those who understand the pressures of having to take whatever the man dishes out, so to speak. Specifically, they are Martha Hale and Mrs. Peters. Martha knew...
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In "A Jury of Her Peers," where is Minnie Wright during the story's events?
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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What literary elements are used in "A Jury of Her Peers"?
"A Jury of Her Peers" is a reworking of Susan Glaspell's one-act play Trifles. Both works raise questions about whether the criminal justice system treats women fairly. In both, the men in law...
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In "A Jury of Her Peers," why don't the women tell the men what they've found out?
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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In "A Jury of Her Peers," how do male characters learn from the investigation? How about the women characters?
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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Who are the characters in "A Jury of her Peers"?
The famous short story "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell tells of a group of people investigating a murder in a remote Iowa farmhouse. The two main characters are Martha Hale, the wife of a...
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Why could Mr. Wright's name be considered ironic in the story "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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What is the mood/tone in "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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Who are the protagonist and antagonist in the story "A Jury of Her Peers"?
In Glaspell's short story "A Jury of Her Peers," the main conflict pits the men's arrogant air of superiority and seemingly logical methods against the women's responses to the conditions of Minnie...
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There are various settings described in the story "A Jury of Her Peers." What are three that help your understanding...
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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What does "knot it" mean when talking about quilting in the story "A Jury of Her Peers"?
The phrase refers to a way of finishing a quilt once it had been sewn together, and is of course yet another example of the "trifles" that women associate themselves with in this story that the men...
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What is meant by the statement that "Wright was close!" in "A Jury of Her Peers"? What details help the reader...
This line from “A Jury of Her Peers” is an exclamation that Mrs. Hale makes while she and Mrs. Peters are going through Minnie Wright’s clothes. They are choosing some items to take to her in jail....
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What do the male characters learn from their investigation in "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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Describe the character of Minnie Wright in "A Jury of Her Peers" as a young unmarried woman.
The young Minnie Wright of Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peter's memory bore little resemblance to the one who had apparently just murdered her husband. They still remember her as a spirited and happy young...
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In what ways does Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers" reflect some women's feelings of being trapped and oppressed by...
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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What is the plot of "A Jury of Her Peers"?
The basic plot of this story, which becomes the play, Trifles, is a woman by the name of Minnie Wright has killed her husband, John Wright. They live in a secluded farmhouse, and he is not kind to...
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In "A Jury of Her Peers," how do the men show they do not think women are inferior?
It's very hard to find any evidence to the men being conscientious of the women. The county attorney especially is very condescending to the women. He makes comments about their conversations of...
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What does the quilt symbolize in "A Jury of Her Peers"?
The quilt comes to symbolize the solidarity of women in "A Jury of Her Peers." When the group investigating the murder scene passes by the quilt, Mrs. Peters stops to admire it. Tenderly touching...
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Describe what type of person Minnie Wright was before her marriage.
Clearly, if you read the story carefully, you will see that through the various reminisces that Mrs. Hale has of her friend, Minnie Foster, before she became Mrs. Wright, she was a social woman who...
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Explain the irony of John Wright's name and the way he died.
I think #5 makes a number of excellent points in focusing on how Mr. Wright thought he was always "right." Although he is a character that we never meet in the story, his arrogance and oppression...
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In "A Jury of Her Peers," what were Mr. Hale and his son taking into town the day they discovered the crime?
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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In "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell, why is the title ironic? What decision was reached by Mrs. Hale and Mrs....
The famous short story "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell tells of two women who accompany their husbands to a remote farmhouse in which a murder has been committed. While the husbands...
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Who is Mr. Wright's wife in "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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