How Does Susan Glaspell Use Symbols In A Jury Of Her Peers

In “A Jury of her Peers” by Susan Glaspell, the story uses symbols to show the life of a young woman in 1917, whose life was sweet and pretty and ends lonely, messy, and broken. The location of the Wright homestead symbolizes the loneliness and emptiness Minnie Foster Wright endures. Glaspell tells us the Wright farm “looked very lonesome this cold March morning. It has always been a lonesome looking place.” The use of a roller towel by Mr. Henderson, symbolizes the monotony of day in and day out repetition of Minnie’s life. The bird like Minnie, “a sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and—fluttery’, held captive by the cage, like Minnie is imprisoned by her life of battery. Mr. Wright, is killed by suffocation symbolizes how he strangled