Comparing Kate Chopin's 'And A Jury Of Her Peers'

Kate Chopin, the author of “The Story of an Hour,” was inspired to write her stories based from what had happened to her in her life. All the man in her life died, which affected her deeply and writing was the thing that helped her keep going. Susan Glaspell on the other hand, was the author of “A Jury of Her Peers,” who at the time rebelled against society’s expectations. Both women a the time were trying to address the issue that women were being thought as inferiors by man and were also mistreated. In the two stories there was irony, women were being viewed as inferior by the man, and the role of a women was the same in both stories. Even though they may have shared some similarities, they also have some differences like the setting of where

The irony in story by Kate Chopin was how the crime was solved by the women, when the ones that were investigating the case were the man, while in the story of Susan Glaspell, the irony was how the wife died at the end instead of the husband, who returned alive. The second similarity is that in both stories the women were being viewed as inferior by the man. In Kate Chopin’s story “great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death.” Since great care was taken to tell the wife the news, it shows that the man viewed her as weak, since he was being so careful to tell her the news of her husband’s death. In Susan Glaspell's story, the sheriff laughed at when the women wondered whether Mrs. Wright “was going to quilt it or just knot it.” The sheriff laughed at the women’s thoughts and thought they were simple minded and inferior than them, since they can’t think about something useful. The third similarity is that the role of a women was the same in both stories. In both stories women were stay at home wives that were in charge of taking care of the house and nothing more. Even both stories may have shared some similarities, they have also shared some