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A Jury Of Her Peers - Case Dismissed - Term Papers

A Jury Of Her Peers - Case Dismissed

A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell is a story of a woman named Mrs. Foster-Wright. She was a woman who was taken to jail after a man called Mr. Hale and his son came to see if her husband, Mr. Wright would like to join in with the other neighbors to get a phone. As Mr. Hale comes inside, he notices Mrs. Wright sitting in her chair acting very nervous. He asks her where her husband is and she pointed upstairs. Mr. Hale asked to see him but she says "Cause he's dead" (185). He indeed finds Mr. Wright upstairs dead by a rope around his neck. The next day they take Mrs. Wright in custody and send a group of people to check out their house for clues. The group includes the sheriff, ...

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that Mrs. Wright has and cares for shows the sensitivity of her soul. When the women step into the kitchen one of the first thing that they notice is the bird cage. The bird was sold to her by a door to door salesman. The bird also suggests the lonliness she has. Mrs. Wright cared for the bird so much that when her husband killed it, she avenged its death. She mourned the bird after it was gone and it served as the final straw that broke the camel's back. The women also noticed the untidyness of the kitchen. Everything looked like it was "a nice mess" (186). Also when Mrs. Wright is in jail she starts to worry about her fruit she had put away. She said that "she said the fire would go out and her jars would burst" (186). Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters decide to tell her that her fruit jars were fine and that they did not burst. The next character trait that the ladies said that Mrs. Wright possesed was her creativity.
At the beginning of the story when Mr. Hale told the ...

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Added: 10/6/2006 06:13:41 PM
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