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A Jury Of Her Peers Summary

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Susan Glaspell spent most of her life working as a journalist, fiction writer, playwright and promoter of various artistic. “A Jury of Her Peers” wrote by Susan Glaspell is a story that has to do with confusion, murder, lies, it showed how women used to not have right, and also showed women abilities and skills. The story was about a woman's name Minnie Foster Wright was accused of the murder her husband John Wright. In the story, I think Susan wanted us to see women are smart and capable as men are to perform the duties and jobs of everyday life. Throughout Susan Glaspell times women didn't have any right to say or do anything. Women used to stay home to cook, clean and take care of the kids which Mrs. Minnie didn't have. Even in the story …show more content…

Now, her husband put her in a cage where she didn't have anybody to talk to. While the caged canary didn't have any friends to talk, children to feed, and the bird didn't have freedom to fly like any other birds. Minnie Foster scared of cat the same way birds are scared of cat. Minnie scared of the cat because she doesn't want the cat to hurt her; the same way birds are scared of cats to not to eat them. The sheriff's wife was explained how when they brought Minnie she was kind of timid, sweet, and fluttery. Bird look innocent with an expression on the face and they look sweet like the birds saying take Minnie Foster were protecting her bird because the bird was like a child to her and it was her enjoyment. Birds are so protective of their child the minute you try to touch their kids they would hurt you in a heart bit without you knowing. They managed to get directly over their baby and drop food into their baby mouth, which immediately hollered like real mom would do. Minnie Foster feels like she had to protect the birds because the bird was her child. She feeds the bird, talk to the bird when she needs to talk to someone, and the bird was the only noise she hearted inside the house like a kid would do. When she finds out her husband broke her bird's neck, so she went in chock him the same something her husband did to her

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