The short story “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell begins with Martha Hale abruptly leaving her home in disarray to join her husband and a group of townspeople who are waiting for her out in the cold to investigate the murder of John Wright, who has been strangled in his bed while his wife sleeps next to him.
I like that the title of the story leads you to believe that you will be reading about a trial jury when in fact the jury referred to are the people at the crime scene. I enjoy the different perspectives of men and women who are in the farmhouse where the murder is committed. I think it would be interesting to look at the time period that this was written and discover how the story was received by the readers of that period.
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I like that the title of the story leads you to believe that you will be reading about a trial jury when in fact the jury referred to are the people at the crime scene. I enjoy the different perspectives of men and women who are in the farmhouse where the murder is committed. I think it would be interesting to look at the time period that this was written and discover how the story was received by the readers of that period.
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