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A Jury of Her Peers - Term Papers

A Jury of Her Peers

Jacqueline Anderson
Dr. Elliott
EH 101
September 30, 2010

A Jury of Her Peers

As Mr. Peters stated, the murder of Mr. Wright is "queer" in "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell. Mr. Wright is found strangled in his own bed by his own rope. Mrs. Wright claimed she is asleep beside him but never woke. "I sleep sound," she says (Glaspell 835). There were no signs of forced entry into the Wright home. The motive for the murder is uncertain creating a deeper investigation. A found motive would condemn Mrs. Wright, creating justice for the men but no compassion for the women. In the case against Mrs. Wright, a jury of all women would make a difference because of a woman's ...

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Mrs. Peters peeked interest begins a dialect between the women about the bird, meanwhile they discover the murdered canary among the quilt "patches" (842). They noticed that the canary had been violently killed suggesting that someone cruelly wrung its neck as an act of aggression. The appearance that "someone must have been rough with it" (841) brings the women to consider that Mr. Wright deliberately killed his wife's bird during a moment of rage. The women concoct an indication that Mr. Wright killed the bird due to his temper suggesting that Mrs. Wright was in an abusive relationship of which she could only escape by eliminating her husband. Through Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters examination they develop the motive Mr. Henderson and Mr. Peters were searching for. The women have discovered the motive because their interest in the minute details including the badly sewn patches, the broken door of the bird cage and the murdered bird all of which has been overlooked or dismissed by Mr. ...

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Added: 9/3/2012 02:50:21 PM
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Category: English
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