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Text of the Story. When Martha Hale opened the storm-door and got a cut of the north wind, she ran back for her big woolen scarf. As she hurriedly wound that round her head her eye made a scandalized sweep of her kitchen.
4 cze 2019 · Margaret Hossack claimed that John had been murdered with an axe by an intruder. She was found guilty, but on an appeal, the verdict was later overturned. Here is a fascinating reprint of Glaspell’s coverage of the actual case.
Henderson, the young county attorney, Mr. Hale, and Mr. Peters, the sheriff, have taken Minnie into custody after someone strangled her husband in their bed. Mr. Hale had stopped by the day before to talk to John and found Minnie rocking in her chair, quiet and distracted.
The story begins with protagonist Martha Hale ’s hasty departure from her farmhouse in Dickinson County, Iowa. Martha Hale hates to leave her work undone and her kitchen in disarray, but she has been called upon to accompany a group of her neighbors who wait outside.
The story begins on a cold, windy day in fictional Dickson County, with Martha Hale being abruptly called to ride to the scene of Wright's murder. In the buggy is Lewis Hale, her husband; Sheriff Peters, the county sheriff; and Mrs. Peters, the sheriff's wife.
Martha Hale, the protagonist of Susan Glaspell’s 1917 short story “A Jury of Her Peers,” is a farmwife who must confront a painful failure of responsibility to a girlhood friend. Mrs.
In “A Jury of Her Peers,” Glaspell imagines why a woman might kill her husband and how other women might react to the murder. Read the free full text, the full story summary, the full story analysis, and explanations of important quotes from “A Jury of Her Peers.”.
