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Women are always seen a certain type of way because of the standards set by societies and by stereotypes. In A Jury of Her Peers, the men and women’s roles affected the perception of the case. Along with the roles affecting the perception of the case it deals with their stand on the evidence, and how women were treated throughout the story. In the text, Mr. Peters, Mr. Hale, and Mr. Henderson roles are sheriff, farmer, and county attorney therefore automatically being “superior”. As for the women they were stay at home wives, leaving them to be “inferior”. Society has always played a role implying that women are always inferior and considered the stay at home wives to do everything around the house, care for the kids, and care for their husbands. In an article by …show more content…

Mrs. Hale has a connection with Mrs. Foster when she sees the mess in the kitchen and believes that she was distracted because no women would leave her kitchen a mess. The sheriff seemed to believe there is no importance of the kitchen because it is just a dirty kitchen and he believed she was just a messy person, for example, the text says, “’You’re convinced there was nothing important here?’ he asked the sheriff. ‘Nothing that would – point to any motive?’ … ‘Nothing here but kitchen thing,’ he said, with a little laugh for the insignificance of kitchen things. … ‘Here’s a nice mess,’ he said resentfully” (Glaspell, 4). Not only was the sheriff being insignificant towards the kitchen, he was criticizing Mrs. Hale for sticking up for Mrs. Foster stating, “’Ah, loyal to your sex, I see,’ he laughed” (Glaspell, 5). Throughout the text, the women believed that there was a possibility that Mrs. Foster is responsible for killing her husband. Mrs. Hale decides to fix the quilt Mrs. Foster was working on and then starts questioning what she was nervous about that caused her to mess up her-

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