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This 3 page paper discusses Susan Glaspell's short story "A Jury of Her Peers." Bibliography lists 1 source.
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why the law, although it is the law, sometimes does not dispense justice. This paper examines the story briefly, and how it might relate to events in a students life.
Discussion The tale is deceptively simple: John Wright has been found dead, and his wife arrested for his murder. The people who go to find evidence against her are unsuccessful;
and it appears that she will be acquitted. But the way in which it unfolds is complex, subtle and brilliant. When the story opens its the following day. Mrs. Wright,
the former Minnie Foster, is in jail, and five other people are at the Wrights home, looking for clues as to what happened. The five are Sheriff Peters and his
wife; Lewis and Martha Hale; and the county attorney, "young Henderson" (Glaspell, 2007). A sharp reader will note immediately that only Minnie Foster and the Hales are referred to by
their first names, and then we learn Hales name only because his wife thinks of him as "Lewis." Everyone else is only a title: Sheriff Peters, Mrs. Peters, and Henderson,
who is most often simply referred to as "the attorney." This makes it easier to identify with the Hales, and particularly Mrs. Hale, than with any of the other characters,
and indeed she is the most likeable person in the story, because she is the one who solves the mystery and suggests its resolution. Throughout the tale, the men tromp
through the Wrights house and barn, commenting on how sloppy a housekeeper she is, and disparaging the work women do. They are extremely condescending: "Oh, well," said Mrs. Hales husband,
with good-natured superiority, "women are used to worrying over trifles" (Glaspell, 2007). The attorney sees the womens reaction to this sexist pronouncement, and tries to make it up: "And yet,"
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