Susan Glaspell's A Jury Of Her Peers

A Jury of Her Peers Gender battles have dated back to the beginning of time. Even the men have decided the women are incompetent to understand or the women have thought the men were too incompetent to understand. There was never a happy medium. In “ A Jury of Her Own Peers” a woman is accused of murdering her own husband, throughout the story two women and two men go searching around her house. The men looking for evidence and the women looking for things to take back to Mrs. Wright at the station. Well the men are looking objectively the women use their emotions tell the story.
In Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers”, a man was allegedly murdered by hanging. The inspector’s main suspect is the wife because she was supposed to be in bed with him. Like in most cases the first suspect to be looked at is the spouse. They have the most motive, they look the most guilty, and they have the best advantage. In the case of Mrs. Wright her husband Mr. Wright stripped her of all happiness that she had known before her marriage. In her younger years Mrs. Wright sang in a choir after marriage she no longer sang. To make up for the taking of her favorite pastime she found a canary to

In the time that “A Jury of Her Peers”, was written women did not have many rights. They also did not have many opportunities to do other things outside their home.They're expected stay home cook clean and take care of the children to their husband came home. Mr. and Mrs. Wright did not have any children nor did she take care of house very well. Her neighbor even told the sheriff this. It was one of the reason she didn't come to the house very often. She said that “time and time again it had been in her mind-- I ought to go over and see Minnie Foster she thought of her as Minnie Foster though for over 20 years she had been mrs. wright and there was always something to do and Minnie Foster would go from her mind”