A Jury Of Her Peers

A Jury of Her Peers a story in which themes such as the subjugation of women, men’s obliviousness to women's importance shown in addition to their forced roles are presented as passive subordinates to men by which our protagonists prove this to be wrong. Also being something prominently established because of the setting. The mistreatment only being recognized by the two wives who understand struggle that is being a farm wife. In A Jury of Her Peers men and women's roles in society are worlds apart, where men may have the freedom to different opportunities women are not so fortunate and are forced by social rules dominated by men, restricting their freedom of choice through labor and society. Such assumptions made by men that women are bound to their husbands and their moral code rather
Peters doesn’t need supervising. For that matter, a sheriff’s wife is married to the law.” But in reality she and Mrs.Peters believe the system to be flawed so much so that they make the case their own and investigate on their own, eventually even putting Minnie’s life into their hands as they are the jury, as they understand what she went through and how it feels. This is the closest thing to a fair trial although too late for our “broken” Minnie, no man would be able to understand the reason for her actions or be able to sympathize with her

Our story begins with Martha Hale, hastily leaving her work undone. Being a farms wife, she is bound to these difficult and repetitive tasks in which little to no reward or recognition is given. This gives her and Mrs.Peters reason to help Mrs. Wright and keep details away from their husbands and the sheriff. They feel bad for Mrs.Wright on the personal level understanding how agonizingly