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Gender Roles In A Jury Of Her Peers

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Savannah Jacobs Ms. Manning ENG 110-800 23 May 2016 A Jury of Her Peers: The Women’s Place is in the Kitchen During a time in society where gender roles are extremely distinct it is hard for men to doubt their abilities and knowledge, even when they are in need of help. Throughout “A Jury of Her Peers,” by Susan Glaspell, it is clear that the men need to put aside the wall between men and women to discover the root of the crime. Glaspell writes this short story with the intention of subtly breaking down gender roles. She successfully creates an obvious theme through her use of men belittling women and continuously reminding the women in the story, and the readers, of the “insignificance” of their domestic realm. The men in “A Jury of Her Peers” consistently mock both Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters for the way they care about the things that women were forced to worry about being involved in. While the men are observing the kitchen in Mrs. Wright’s home the women are discussing how Mrs. Wright was worried about her jarred fruit bursting in the cold. Mr. Peters …show more content…

Peters and Mrs. Hale are the ones who find clues to solving the murder. Glaspell foreshadows this outcome by having the county attorney say “‘…[n]o telling; you women might come upon a clue to the motive…’” (Glaspell). Once the men leave the women alone they begin putting together items to take to Mrs. Wright in jail and no one is concerned with what they are taking her because the men do not see anything from the domestic realm to be dangerous. While they are putting together items, Mrs. Peters stumbles upon a birdcage that has clearly been roughed up, and eventually they locate a deceased bird. It is obvious that the bird has murdered considering it has a wrung neck. Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale have just found what appears to be the cause of the murder, considering Mr. Wright’s neck was also

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