Analysis of “A Jury of Her Peers”

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The way the author writes this story is like piecing a quilt together, you never know how it’s

going to come out until it is finished. When I read the story I got the feeling from the characters

that Mr. Wright was not a very pleasant man, though he was as the men would say “an upstanding

man,” the women on the other hand thought Mr. Wright to be a hard man.

The character Martha Hale she’s got some O.C.D. going on, seemed to be very bothered by

leaving her kitchen just the way it was to go somewhere else in a rush. I got the feeling while

reading this story that Martha was not very patient when Mr. Hale would tell a story he like to

embellish. Mr. Wright was not one of Martha’s favorite people either he wasn’t cheerful. Martha

didn’t think Mrs. Peters seemed like a sheriff’s wife she didn’t have a strong voice like the previous

wife. Martha had some scandal in her also, redoing Mrs. Foster’s quilt piece, it had some nervous

stitching on it, and hiding the box that had the dead canary in it in her pocket. Mrs. Hale had made

the comment that Mrs. Foster sang real p...

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