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Essay / Prejudice against women depicted in Glaspell's, A Jury...
A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell is a story that reveals how women were subjected to prejudice in the early 1900s. revolves around Minnie Wright, who was at the center of a murder investigation, and two other women, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, who decide their own verdict and Mrs. Wright's fate. Even though women were at the height of gender discrimination, Susan Glaspell shows how a woman's connection and intuition far exceeds that of any man. The struggle that women have faced throughout history shows how difficult it was for women to live in a male-dominated world. When Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters first enter Minnie Wright's house, they see how lonely and unkept her house was. The men couldn't understand why a woman kept her house like that, but the women understood how sad and depressed Mrs. Wright was. "'Maybe I knew she needed help! I tell you, it's weird, Mrs. Peters. We live close to each other and we live far away from each other. We go through all the same things – it’s just a different type of suffering.” same thing! If it wasn't so why you and I understand...