Unit 9. Post 2.

Jury of her Peers by Susan Glaspell.

This story, like Hunters in the Snow, stereotypes the female gender. This story exemplifies female comradeship in the end when the two women decide to hide the dead bird so that Mrs. Wright would not be judged as harshly. This story also stereotypes the male gender as disrespectful to females and uncaring of women's opinions. The women in this story present the stereotype that women gossip about everything. 

"When they spoke now it was as if they were afraid of what they were saying, but if they could not help saying it" (Glaspell, 422).

The women seem to do nothing more than gossip about the woman who murdered her husband the entire story. The men, oblivious to the fact that their wives were investigating the murder in their own way, disregard any idea or comment that the women have to tell them. The gender type casting in this story seems to resonate with early twentieth century logic, that women belonged doing chores, and men belonged doing any real work. The suspense was created in the story by the women coming up with their own ideas over why the murder took place, and the answer was not revealed until the end of the story.