Staying In Susan Glaspell's A Jury Of Her Peers

Domestic Violence is an issue that is becoming more common in our world today. Unfortunately, lots of men and women face being abused on a daily basis, and their reasoning behind staying is something that we cannot even begin to understand. Everyone’s situation is different, and the reasons for staying differ as well. People who have never experienced domestic violence think that people who stay in these abusive relationships are crazy for staying, and that they can just leave whenever they want. However, that is not the case. We should not judge people who stay in these relationships, because we do not know their situations entirely. Several resources have been developed to provide us information on this terrible issue, and to help us better understand why a person might stay in an abusive relationship. From way before the 1900s all the way to 2016, women have stayed in abusive relationships for a variety of different reasons. Some of the reasons consist of: the woman wanted her children to have their father in their life, she did not have another choice, she wanted to see if she could make the relationship work, and during the particular time …show more content…
In Glaspell’s short story called, “A Jury of Her Peers”, it hints that the character, Minnie Foster, may have been abused by her husband. It never directly states that she was abused; however, based on the evidence it seems pretty obvious that she was. Mr. Wright, her husband, liked things quiet and had a lot of flaws about him. Minnie had a bird that she loved dearly, and evidence found by Mrs. Hale led us to believe that Minnie’s husband killed the bird. Minnie gave up everything in her life to be his wife, and when he took the one thing that was hers away she went crazy. Even though he abused her, whether it had been physically or verbally; she still stayed with him. There was a paragraph in this story that