Character Essay on a Jury of Her Peers

Outline

Title: The Character Mrs. Hale Becomes the Jury

1. Introduction

a. Central idea: Mrs. Hale is a character that plays an important role in the outcome of the story.

b. Thesis statement: Mrs. Hale ultimately becomes a key player in whether Mrs. Wright will be convicted or not because of the discoveries she makes and her feelings toward Mrs. Wright.

2. Body

a. Mrs. Hale is a woman who hates things to be unfinished.

b. Mrs. Hale shows sympathy and guilty.

c. Mrs. Hale's discoveries and her feelings towards Minnie make her choose to hide evidence.

3. Conclusion Topic sentence: Mrs. Hale's character is well described and her feelings towards the main character make her decide what she does.

Mrs. Hale Becomes the Jury

In the story A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell Mrs. Martha Hale's character begins as just the wife of the man who discovered the dead body of John Wright, and was needed to go to the house to help the sheriff's wife Mrs. Peters gather up some of Mrs. Wright's things that she asked for while in jail. Mrs. Hale does not seem very important at the beginning, but she is a character who shows sympathy and guilt throughout this story. Mrs. Hale ultimately becomes a key player in whether Mrs. Wright will be convicted or not because of the discoveries she makes and her feelings toward Mrs. Wright.

Mrs. Hale is a woman who as described by Glaspell is someone who cannot stand for things to be left unfinished this becomes a major fact in the discovery of evidence against Mrs. Wright. At the beginning of the story when we first meet Mrs. Hale she is torn between leaving her flour half sifted on the counter and her kitchen a mess and going with her husband and other people to the Wright place, because as Glaspell explains at the beginning of the story "She hated to see things half done" (190). Many times throughout the story there are references to the fact Mrs. Hale cannot stand to see things undone from the discovery of the kitchen to the quilt that was knitted differently. The need for her to fix the quilt is the reason the most important evidence that could possibly convict Mrs. Wright of murder was discovered the dead bird.

Martha Hale seems to have sympathy but also guilt when it comes to talking about Mrs. Minnie Wright. Martha mentions many times through the story how she has known Minnie for twenty years she even refers to her with her maiden name quite a few times even though she has been married to John Wright a long time. Martha

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