A Jury of her Peers

"It looked very lonesome this cold March morning. It had always been a lonesome-looking place. It was down in -a hollow, and the poplar trees around it were lonesome-looking trees." In the short story, A Jury of her Peers, Minnie Foster was a lonesome lady living in a house of mistreatment until, that is, her husband suddenly died. Minnie Foster owned a canary. This canary was all that she had to represent her freedom. When she discovered that her bird was strangled to death by her husband, she found that her freedom had been gone. Her husband, Mr. Wright, took that only freedom that she had away from her. The only thing Minnie could think of doing was getting back at Mr. Wright. Minnie wanted him to struggle and suffer just like she did without her bird, and she wanted him to die the same way her bird did. She knew that a gun would be to fast and he would be gone in an instant, so she decided to make it slow and painful by strangling him like her bird.
After the physical murder,the Peters family and the Hale family came to investigate. Throughout the course of the story the women,Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, seemed to be treated unfairly. The men did not respect them and let them help in the investigation. Maybe they believed that the women were on Mrs. Wright's side. The women decided to work separately from the men in finding out what really happened to Mr. Wright. The clues the ladies found were good, though not on purpose. When the men asked Mrs. Wright questions about Mr. Wright's death she didn't seem to interested and caring. That showed me that it was Mrs. Wright who killed her husband. It was as though she killed him because it was like she had been trapped in this cage full of mistreatment and neglection for all these years just like her bird. All Mrs. Wright wanted was comfort and freedom and getting rid of her husband was her way of getting it.