A Jury of Her Peers

"Her fellow juror" [1] written in 1917 is a short story by Susan Graspel based on the murder of John Hossack in 1900 and covered by Graspel during his term as a journalist I was wrong. [2] For the Des Moines Daily News. Because two female characters can solve a mystery that a male character can not solve, it can be seen as an example of early feminist literature. They got help through the understanding of female psychology. Glaspell originally wrote this story as a one-off play called "The Trivia of Township Players" in 1916. [3] This story was adapted to the episode of the gifts of the 1950s TV series Alfred Hitchcock. It was also adopted in the 30-minute movie by Sally Heckel in 1980. The film was nominated for the Oscar of the Best Actual Short Film Award. [Four]

"Her fellow juror" concerns the discovery of John Wright's murder case and subsequent investigation. The story began on a cold, windy day in a fictitious Dixon County (representing Dickinson County, Iowa), and Martha suddenly was called to a cycling crime scene. In this car, Louis Hale, her husband, county magistrate Sharif Peters, and sheriff's wife Peter's wife's wife. She hurriedly left to get in their car and the group left. They reached the crime scene, the lonely house of Wright brothers. Mrs. Hale felt guilty as soon as she got married because she became Mrs. Light (wife of the deceased) twenty years ago, so she did not go to see her friend Minnie Foster. Mr. Hale was asked the county public prosecutor to explain what he saw the previous day and what he had experienced when all the teams went home safely. Despite seriousness, he told his story in a long and cautious way, and he always tried to avoid this tendency. The story begins with Mr. Hale persuading Mr. Wright's house to call Mr. Wright at risk. After entering the house, he learned that Mrs. Wright was in an unconscious state, he was told that Mr. Wright was strangled. Very special attention to women's curiosity and subtle details has enabled them to find the guilt of Mrs. Light Mrs. and her evidence of provocation and motivation. At the same time, these people can not get the evidence. The woman found evidence available. Dead birds in the box. Minnie likes singing before, and her husband is said to have robbed it from her. But now she knows that her birds are dead, that her neck was broken (it shows that her husband has killed it), and it is obvious that Mrs. White murdered her husband was. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters used the knowledge and experience as two "Midwestern country females" to understand the pain of only Mrs. Light Mrs. Wright's wife around her wife. [5] The woman found a reason in Mrs. Wright's behavior and concealed what was seen in the man. Finally, they seem to disturb the evidence and prevent the conviction. The story ends here and never enters the event after they leave home.

The criticism of "her fellow juror" can be traced back to the point in 1927 when it was first published or collected in 1927, along with other articles collected by the review committee by Glaspell. It was the first time that the story had a strong interest in it after it was well received in the 1970s. However, in the drama review of "Trifles" that was held in the year before "A Peury of Her Peers" was published in 1916, critics said that this program is the best actor in the state so far I thought. I recommend it. Early criticism from the theater mirror for New York was highly appreciated as a mysterious and dubious drama, but the drama magazine discovered that the interpretation of the intuition of an actress woman is clever. Meanwhile, the New York Times critic found that their performance and conversation were not satisfactory. Later comments on European work suggested that the attraction of the drama was limited to American audiences as it solved the unique historical environment of the United States in the early 20 th century.

In the early 1900s, Susan Grasspel wrote many works, two of which were prominent, theater "Ogre" and a short story "Peary of her companion". The small shell was written in 1920, and "her peer Peury" was written the following year. The rifle was written in only 10 days. The true greatness of these works was not allowed until the 1970s. A short story called "a fellow jury", a woman named Minnie Wright was accused of killing her husband. - Susan Grass Pell 's "her fellow juror", female characters face inequality in the society governed by her husband' s opinion. It is difficult for women to judge where loyalty is, and the destiny of colleagues. With the help of memory and their own lifestyle, women understand the relationship with homicide women, Minnie Fosterite