"Detectives"

I really like reading “A Jury of her Peer”. The story presented in this book could be interpret in many different ways. One way I view the story was that men and women were not recognized as generally equal in talent and intelligence. Men were thought to be more talented and intelligent than women. However, the author presented women as intelligent and detectives of their kind.  

I chose to discuss both Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peter characters.  I though they handle the evidences quite well and saw the case in a whole new different way. After the discovery of Minnie’s strangled canary, the two women conjecture that Minnie strangled her husband just as he had strangled her canary. Empathizing with Minnie, the women decide not to tell their husbands about the results of their own investigation. Instead, they repair the erratic stitching on Minnie's quilt and concoct a story about the canary's disappearance, blaming a runaway cat. In silent collusion, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters cover up the clues that reveal Minnie's motive, quietly acquitting Minnie from wrongdoing without their husbands' knowledge

The two women also find Minnie's cherished canary strangled and carefully tucked away in a box inside her sewing basket. After discovering these clues, the two women begin talking about how Minnie, once sociable and cheerful, evolved into an introverted, lonely woman after marrying her silent, cold husband. Both women also notice the broken hinge on the bird cage, speculating that John Wright might have strangled Minnie's canary, much the way he killed his wife's spirit with his overbearing manner.