Legality vs. Human Bonding in A Jury of Her Peers Essay -- A Jury of H

In "A Jury of Her Peers" Susan Glaspell shows how human bond can override legalities that society has. This is shown by Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters bonding with Minnie by understanding her daily life as they are in her home. The 2 women feel a connection with Minnie because their lives are very like to that of hers. By the two women understanding and having a connection with Minnie they notice the small trifles that leads to them decision evidence and motive for Minnie murdering her husband. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters were only in Minnies home for a short period of time yet this revealed to them that Minnie was much like them. As Mrs. Hale was leaving her house to go with the others to Minnies house she noticed something in her kitchen. "It was no nondescript thing that called her away -- it was probably further from ordinary than anything that had ever happened in Dickson county. But what her eye took in was that her kitchen was in no shape for leaving her bread ready for mixing, fractional the flour sifted and half unsifted." (paragraph 1). Later while at Minnies house, Mrs. Hale noticed something very similar "She looked around the kitchen. Certainly it was not slicked up. Her eye was held by a bucket of sugar on a low shelf. The cover was shoot the wooden bucket, and beside it was a paper bag --- half full. Mrs. Hale go toward it. She was putting this in there, she said to herself -- slowly." (paragraph 108). Mrs. Hale and Minnie ar...