A Woman’s Perspective Over the course of time, women have played various roles in politics and literature often mirroring the circumstances of the age and time they lived in. A few people dared go against the norm and Susan Glaspell was one of them. Set in an age where women were considered inferior to men, her stories usually challenged that perception, often having a female heroine or displaying with remarkable subtlety the necessity of a woman’s insight. In Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers,” because Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters look at the state of the Wright house, the dead canary, and Mr. Wright’s behavior from a different perspective from their trained husbands, they come to a quicker and more accurate understanding of the events leading up to the murder. Almost as soon as they step into the Wright home, it is obvious Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are not going see things the same way their husbands do. Straightaway, the women draw different conclusions from the state of the house than the men. The women observe the unusual state of general disarray the house is in, noting the unwashed kitchen utensils and the dirty towels. So while the men make jokes about Mrs. Wright’s skills as a housekeeper, the women deduce that there must be a reason for the general state of disarray because it is odd for a woman to leave her home in that state. This is also why they make excuses about the state of the house to their husbands. For instance Mrs. Hale says: “There’s a great deal of work to be done on a farm . . . . Those towels get dirty awful quick . . . . Farmers wives have their hands full . . . .” (713). Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters also draw different conclusions about the dead canary than the men. They discover the bird before the men do, and so they have some time to themselves to discuss the dead bird without restrictions. They realize that Mrs. Wright