Friday, January 10, 2014

What do the women do for Mrs. Wright at the end?

At the end of the story “A Jury of Her Peers,” Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters keep the biggest evidence that explains Mrs. Wright’s motive for killing her husband away from the sheriff and the attorney of the county.
Mr. Hale accompanies the law officers to the Wrights’ place, where a murder has been committed, because he and his son had been the first people at the scene of the crime. Mrs. Hale is also requested to accompany Mrs. Peters, the sheriff’s wife, to the murder scene. The two women are left alone in the kitchen to prepare a few things that they are to take to Mrs. Wright, who has already been detained on murder charges. It is while they are in the kitchen that the two women slowly figure out what might have taken place on the day of the murder.
First, they discover that Mrs. Wright had been working on a quilt sometime before the worrying incident took place. They find a piece of the quilt where the sewing did not measure up to the quality of the sewing in other parts—a sign that the quilter had perhaps been distracted while doing her work. Next, they find a birdcage with a broken door. They surmise that Mr. Wright could have had something to do with the broken door of the bird cage and the missing bird. Finally, they discover the bird, which seems to have died from strangulation, covered in a piece of silk in a beautiful box inside Mrs. Wright’s sewing basket. They confirm their fears that Mrs. Wright could have killed her husband after he mercilessly killed her bird, the only thing that possibly kept her going in the chilly, lonesome house. However, they hide the dead bird away from the investigators and keep what they know to themselves.

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