Jury Of Her Peers By Susan Glaspell

She murdered He because he was an awful person and would not let her have something that would make her at least smile. A team of individuals including of the sheriff, county attorney, Mr. Hale, and Mrs. Peters were on a mission to find the purpose of the murderer. At this point, Mrs. Wright is the main suspect. Mrs. Hale was asked to go with them to give Mrs. Peters, the

In the short story “A Jury of Her Peers” written by Susan Glaspell, Mrs. Peter and Mrs. Hale utilize their investigative skills with the help of the police department to convey most of the plot to the reader. The story begins with Mrs. Wright being suspected as the murderer of Mr. Wright and she is then arrested. The dead body was found by Mr. Hale the day before Mrs. Peter and Mrs. Hale, as well as the county attorney, arrive at the house to search for evidence pertaining to the murder case. While the men on the site focused on searching for the larger clues, the women were left to investigating the kitchen. They found a messy kitchen and a dead canary bird.

Hale that Minnie Foster, before becoming Minnie Wright, used to sing in the choir. Mrs. Wright has now lost her song (550). Mr. Wright is described as a quiet man and this makes Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale begin to see why Mrs. Wright is now not as lively and spirited as she used to be; Mr. Wright had killed her song. Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale find a birdcage, and eventually find a dead canary that has been strangled, helping them to understand the means behind the way Minnie Wright killed her husband. The death of the canary was more to Mrs. Wright than just her pet dying; it was a symbolism of her own metaphorical death and it pushed her over the edge into killing her

She used to sing. He killed that too”. Minnie Wright got the canary bird because it was a symbol of her past life. The bird symbolized the love Mrs. Wright had for singing. Furthermore, Mrs. Wrights wardrobe represented the neglect and frugality she received from her husband.

The death of the bird caused Minnie Wright to lose her remaining

Previously Mrs. Peters, the sheriff’s loyal wife, had been hard stuck on the idea that the law was just and served justice fairly. After the women find evidence that could convict Mrs. Wright and piecing the story together of her motive, the men begin to return and Glaspell writes, “Suddenly MRS. PETERS throws back quilt pieces and tries to put the box in the bag she is wearing. It is too big. She opens box, starts to take bird out, cannot touch it, goes to pieces, stands there helpless.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we are here today to discuss the murder of John Wright. On November 15, Mr. Wright was found in his bed with a rope around his neck, presumably strangled to death. His body was discovered by his wife supposedly and did not bother to notify to the local authorities. At eight o'clock in the morning, Mr. Hale went to look for Mr. Wright and found Minnie, Mr. Wright’s wife, sitting in a rocking chair inside of the house. Mr. Hale asked Minnie for her husband and she stated that John Wright was dead in the bedroom.

The ladies open the box to find a dead bird wrapped up in a piece of silk. Mrs. Hale makes the remark, “I wonder how it would seem to never have a child around. Wright wouldn’t like the bird, a thing that sang. She used to sing, he killed that to.” It is obvious that all of these findings do give a small motive to why Minnie would have killed

The dead canary and its cage was a pivotal piece of evidence that the women discovered. The dead bird represents the old Mrs. Wright— Minnie Foster and its cage represents how she was

In the play Trifles, written by Susan Glaspell, and the play A Doll’s House, written by Henrik Ibsen, there are two ladies who undergo two different situations. Mrs. Wright is someone who is assumed as the murderer of her husband Mr. Wright. On the other hand, Nora manipulates her husband by taking out a loan without his approval. These two ladies both face isolation in their relationships and eventually end up without their husbands. These two characters differ in their personalities, their actions in their marriages, and their overall marriage.

The scene begins to unfolds in their minds. Mr. Wright yanking open the cage door, taking out the bird, and breaking its fragile neck was enough to make Mrs. Wright lash out, and in a heat of passion, kill her husband. As the trifles collect,  the women worry that the men will see their findings, and have what they need to prove Mrs. Wright guilty. Though the men believe her to be the murderer, the women are trying their best to hide the evidence that will prove it.

The men of the group, much like John in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” consider themselves more capable than the women and refuse to consider Mrs. Wright as anything other than irrational. The men leave the women to their “trifles” on the first floor, where they discover a broken bird cage, and the bird’s body, broken, carefully wrapped in a small, decorative box. They realize that Mr. Wright had wrung the neck of his wife’s beloved bird and broken its cage. Mrs. Wright, once known for her cheerfulness and beautiful singing, she stopped singing when she encountered Mr. Wright. Just like he did with the bird, Mr. Wright choked the life out of his wife until, finally, Mrs. Wright literally choked the life out of her husband.

“ A Jury of Her Peers,” a short story, and “Trifles,” a play, both provide the same story line of finding out the culprit in a early twentieth century murder scene but also differentiate by delving into different aspects on how to showcase the narrative. Both stories center around finding out if Minnie Wright murdered her husband and if she did, her motives for doing so. While the men in both stories simply care about finding out the culprit of the murder, the women fit their stereotypes by fiddling over small details but in the end piece the details together to look at the bigger picture. In “ A Jury of Her Peers” Martha Hale takes the stand as the dominant character of the play revealing how women must take their own stand during

Mrs. Hale says how he crushed her spirit and killed her only companion, that she loved, her pet bird. Minnie does not speak in this story, instead she is described by her friends and the men investigating her husband’s murder. Mr. Hale

She knew that having a child in the house would make it less quite, give her company, someone to talk to and keep her busy. The relationship between the Wrights is very strained, there is no bond. The author uses the canary to