Susan Glaspell's A Jury Of Her Peers

In “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters visit the home where the murder of Mr. Wright took place. While the women’s husbands look at the bigger picture, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters find many major clues in unordinary places around the Wright place. These clues indicate the possibility that Mrs. Wright killed her husband. Although Mrs. Wright claimed to be asleep during the murder of her husband, it’s apparent that she strangled him, signified by the broken birdcage, the decimated canary, and the disheveled quilt patch.
First, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale come across a birdcage, inferencing that Mrs. Wright owned a bird. “Here’s a bird-cage, did she have a bird, Mrs. Hale?”, “There was a man round last year selling canaries-but I don’t know as she took one. Maybe she did. She used to sing real pretty herself.” The broken hinge on the door suggests that someone must have forcefully opened the door. “Look at this door, it’s broke. One hinge has been pulled apart.” Later in the story, Mrs. Hale picked up on the fact that “Wright wouldn’t like the bird- a thing that sang.” Not only is it clear that Mr. Wright disliked the bird, he disliked the fact …show more content…
Hale and Mrs. Peters find a quilt that Mrs. Wright was making. Mrs. Peters notices how the quilting goes from tidy to sloppy. “All the rest of them have been so nice and even-but- this one. Why, it looks as if she didn’t know what she was about.” Mrs. Wright must have been uneasy about murdering her husband, Mrs. Hale made excuses for the careless quilting. “I sew awful queer sometimes when I’m just tired.” When Mrs. Wright started quilting the blanket, it was very organized, but over time she became more unhappy. She took her emotions out on the quilt. As Mrs. Wright started contemplating the murder, the quilting became more sloppy. She knotted the end of her quilt. Knotting is a way to end the quilt. Mrs. Hale supposes that by knotting the end of the quilt, she ends Mr. Wright’s