Tough Situation

A woman put in the position of the two jurors in “Her America” would have many issues of conformity and individuality and the conflict between finding the right combination of the two to make the right decision.  In this case it especially hard for a women in particular.  Domestic violence against who has a huge impact on everyone around the case.  Domestic violence against women is like killing a cop.  If you kill a cop you have the whole force after you with no mercy from the courts.  If you domestically abuse a women you have every women in the world who knows about it grabbing at your throat.  So these women have to deal with the social norms of how heavily domestic violence is view and weather they are to conform to that or not.  It seems like they would just fall in the same category of every other women but there is a twist. They personally knew the couple in question.  This gives them plenty more insight to make an individual opinion about the case rather than conforming to the common view.  That is just to gender part of it.  They also have to take common law into account.  They have to determine whether they thought it was self-defense and also who used deadly force first.  They must also consider if there were previous incidents which there were.  From a common law stand point this would be a clear cut homicide case but since the parties involved have personal insight there interpretations of the law may change a little bit if you catch my drift.  So all in all these women have pressures coming from every which direction and the author Susan Glaspell does a great job of showing the opposing viewpoints from both the males and females on a criminal or personal level.  She shows the personal insight and backgrounds which make the problem all the more emotional and harder to solve.