Jury of Her Peers and Term Paper

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Wright.

It is also quite clear the men do not think the women are intelligent enough to know a clue if they saw it. Glaspell writes, "But would the women know a clue if they did come upon it?' he said; and, having delivered himself of this, he followed the others through the stair door" (Glaspell). Clearly, if they did share the evidence they find with the men, they would simply laugh it off and discount it. They do not respect the women or their intuition, and so, they would simply ignore or discount the evidence if the women gave it to them. The men think they are superior to the women, but in this story, the women prove they have much more common sense and intuitiveness than the men do. They understand the inner workings of the female mind, and what would drive a woman to murder her husband. The men, while they think they know everything, are really quite clueless. They do not have open minds, and they do not understand what they are really looking for.

The women "piece" together the evidence like the piecing of the quilt they find. They understand how lonely and desperate Mrs.
Wright was, and how cruel and heartless her husband was. They understand how much she loved the canary, and how horrifically it was killed. The men would only see a motive, while the women see a lifetime of drudgery, hardship, and abuse. The men would only ignore the meaning of the evidence, and the women immediately understand this, which is why they go to such lengths to hide it. They are far wiser than the men, who will never discover the real truth about what went on in the Wright household. The men only listen to themselves, and they do not understand just how ignorant they are, and how compassionate and understanding the women are. They should have taken the women more seriously, because they would have known the truth by the end of the story, and they might have seen Mrs. Wright in a different light......

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