A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell

A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell is the story of two women making observations of a woman's house who is being accused of murder. The husbands of these two women make it clear that Mrs. Wright had killed her husband, but they lacked the reason for her motivation. Through ironic measures, these two women are able to figure out the motivation of Mrs. Wright's murderous deeds. After finding the dead bird, Mrs. Hale observes, "'His neck. Chocked the life out of him'" (Glaspell, 423). The women first establish that the husband was quite hard on Mrs. Wright. Not only did she completely change her lifestyle to a more unhappy lifestyle, Mr. Wright was very controlling. Mrs. Wright greatly enjoyed her bird, and I believe once her husband killed the bird she finally snapped. This quote shows a direct correlation between the the means by which both the bird and Mr. Wright were killed. I think that Mrs. Wright finally became tired of her husband, and along with resent from the bird, murdered her husband in a similar manner.