Women Behind Closed Doors
ENG1102
February 19, 2012
Women Behind Closed Doors Women were less likely to speak up back in the nineteen hundreds to the early twentieth century because during those times that what was their known place. Some women during those times may or may not have experienced spousal abuse that was kept behind closed doors. Most women kept to themselves with little support or no support at all from the community, others may have talked amongst other women whether it’s family or close friends, but now the roles of women has changed. Mystery type murders is something that has been kept behind closed doors of women due to some type of abuse they may have encountered by their husband or significant other. Three similar short stories that portray the acts of women that killed or may have killed their husband are “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell, “ and “Midnight Assassin”, by Patricia Bryan and Thomas Wolf. The short story “A Jury of Her Peers written by Susan Glaspell in 1917 tells of a murder mystery of a man who was killed in bed with his wife lying next to him when he was killed. The men who were investigating the murder could not piece together any parts of what could have happened to man named Mr. Wright. However, the women somehow discover early into the men’s investigation how the man’s wife may have been mistreated by her husband resulting in his death. Both women’s instincts as they move about the house appear to happen most often at the same time. In Susan Glaspell’s story it over the course of the story it explains Mrs. Hale remembering how the wife was happy as a girl who use to sing, but now lives in a not so kept place. The husband known by few of the people in town says he was good and honest man, but no one knew his harshness at home except for Ms Hale. Conversations between both women instincts of the bag flour and sugar, the bird cage and the quilt the wife had been sewing was in a sense of the same type
February 19, 2012
Women Behind Closed Doors Women were less likely to speak up back in the nineteen hundreds to the early twentieth century because during those times that what was their known place. Some women during those times may or may not have experienced spousal abuse that was kept behind closed doors. Most women kept to themselves with little support or no support at all from the community, others may have talked amongst other women whether it’s family or close friends, but now the roles of women has changed. Mystery type murders is something that has been kept behind closed doors of women due to some type of abuse they may have encountered by their husband or significant other. Three similar short stories that portray the acts of women that killed or may have killed their husband are “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell, “ and “Midnight Assassin”, by Patricia Bryan and Thomas Wolf. The short story “A Jury of Her Peers written by Susan Glaspell in 1917 tells of a murder mystery of a man who was killed in bed with his wife lying next to him when he was killed. The men who were investigating the murder could not piece together any parts of what could have happened to man named Mr. Wright. However, the women somehow discover early into the men’s investigation how the man’s wife may have been mistreated by her husband resulting in his death. Both women’s instincts as they move about the house appear to happen most often at the same time. In Susan Glaspell’s story it over the course of the story it explains Mrs. Hale remembering how the wife was happy as a girl who use to sing, but now lives in a not so kept place. The husband known by few of the people in town says he was good and honest man, but no one knew his harshness at home except for Ms Hale. Conversations between both women instincts of the bag flour and sugar, the bird cage and the quilt the wife had been sewing was in a sense of the same type
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