Analysis Of Susan Glaspell's A Jury Of Her Peers
In “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell, the state of the things in Minnie Wright’s life show the state of the relationship she has with her husband. This is shown through the terrible state of her house, the piecing together of her quilt, and constantly state of being alone. These also give light to key themes Glaspell is portraying throughout her story.
In the story, multiple things were left half done in the house. According to the story, one example of this was the kitchen table, “One half of it was wiped clean, the other half messy. Her eyes made a slow, almost unwilling turn to the bucket of sugar and the half empty bag beside it. Things begun-and not finished” (Glaspell 508). These tasks in the Wrights’ home were left half-finished …show more content…
Because she was almost constantly isolated from everyone except her husband, Minnie had to find a way to show how terrible her life was in the few interactions she was able to have with other women. This meant she had to be able to nonverbally communicate to others in a way her husband would not notice. “Throughout history, from the first Christians who decorated their houses with a mosaic of a fish to the American prisoners of the Vietnam War who used Morse code by blinking their eyes during televised questioning to communicate they had been tortured, people deprived of their freedom have always resorted to alternative means of communication which allow them to "contact" either with the outer world or with those in similar circumstances, And that is exactly the function of the objects found in Minnie Wright's kitchen; they are her means of telling her "sisters in arms" what she has gone through.” The way Minnie was able to find was leaving her house in a terrible condition. John most likely agreed with the other men in this story that his wife was, “Not much of a housekeeper” (Glaspell 505). But other women were able to recognize the signs of their own imprisonment through the objects in the Wrights’ home, and allowed her to become free of her imprisonment in the arms of her
In the story, multiple things were left half done in the house. According to the story, one example of this was the kitchen table, “One half of it was wiped clean, the other half messy. Her eyes made a slow, almost unwilling turn to the bucket of sugar and the half empty bag beside it. Things begun-and not finished” (Glaspell 508). These tasks in the Wrights’ home were left half-finished …show more content…
Because she was almost constantly isolated from everyone except her husband, Minnie had to find a way to show how terrible her life was in the few interactions she was able to have with other women. This meant she had to be able to nonverbally communicate to others in a way her husband would not notice. “Throughout history, from the first Christians who decorated their houses with a mosaic of a fish to the American prisoners of the Vietnam War who used Morse code by blinking their eyes during televised questioning to communicate they had been tortured, people deprived of their freedom have always resorted to alternative means of communication which allow them to "contact" either with the outer world or with those in similar circumstances, And that is exactly the function of the objects found in Minnie Wright's kitchen; they are her means of telling her "sisters in arms" what she has gone through.” The way Minnie was able to find was leaving her house in a terrible condition. John most likely agreed with the other men in this story that his wife was, “Not much of a housekeeper” (Glaspell 505). But other women were able to recognize the signs of their own imprisonment through the objects in the Wrights’ home, and allowed her to become free of her imprisonment in the arms of her