Susan Glaspell was in born in Davenport, Iowa on 1876. She is an American fiction writer that usually writes about women in the society. After graduated from Drake University, she became a journalist, short-story writer, and novelist. She married an American writer George Cram Cook in 1913. (MS Encarta Encyclopedia)
             Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers" is a short story that presents to us the gender conflict in society. In the last 1800's, men were the ones that has voice and control over the family. In this story, Mrs. Wright kills her husband for herself and for unequal of freedom. Susan Glaspell favors women in this story because she sees the lack of freedom for women in the society. On the other hand, men were the bad
             characters in the story because Glaspell wants to show the readers that men should not have all the control in a family. In "A Jury of Her Peers", the author shows the conflict between men and women and the favoritism between women and women.
             Mr. Hale, a friend of John Wright, discovered the murder of John Wright when he visited him. He was told by Minnie Wright that her husband had died. The next morning, Mr. Hale, Sheriff and their wife and county attorney stopped by the house to find evidence to prove Mrs. Wright's guilt. The men were in the bed room looking for evidence, but they didn't find and anything to prove her guilt. On the other hand, the women found some evidence in the kitchen that can put Mrs. Wright in jail for the rest of her life; however the women decided to hidden the evidence for her. "...Within that small space are revealed all the dimensions of the loneliness that is her mute message. And that message is of course conveyed through those 'kitchen things,' as the sheriff dismissingly calls them, to which Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters respond with increasing comprehension and sympathy" (Hedges 3).
             Men are the people that...