Guilty or Not Guilty "A Jury of Her Peers" is the story of a farmer's wife accused of killing her husband. Described primarily as a writer, Glaspell's short fiction went largely unnoticed until 1973, when her short story "A Jury of Her Peers" was rediscovered. Despite being the author of forty-three short stories, Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers" is her most widely anthologized piece of short fiction and hinges on a real court case that Glaspell obtained as a reporter for the Des Moines Daily. The story, which she based on her 1917 play Trifles, attracted the attention of feminist researchers for its treatment of topics related to sexual orientation. On the surface, "A Jury of Her Peers" presents a basic story, but through an extensive dialogue between two women, Glaspell gradually uncovers the true underlying conflict of the story: the struggle of women in a social order overwhelmed by men. exemplary feminist, "A Jury of Her Peers" analyzes women's bonds in a social order governed by men. Critics believe that Glaspell, who constructed this story relative to a real murder trial in which women were not allowed to serve as assistants, trained a jury of those female companions in her story to award their kind of fairness. A criminological story on the surface, "A Jury of Her Peers" is largely an analysis of female persecution, fairness, the restrictive nature of inflexible stereotypes and the contrasts in viewpoints between men and women. All around “A Jury of Her Peers,” the men in the story never acknowledge the persecution of Minnie Wright and how it led to her cutting edge. The men in the story also see their wife ... middle of paper ... arguing with Minnie, the women choose not to inform their spouses about their own test results. Instead, they repair the unpredictable seam on Minnie's shirt and prepare an anecdote about the disappearance of the canaries, blaming a runaway feline. In a quiet plot, Mrs. Robust and Mrs. Subsides hide clues that reveal Minnie's thought process, silently absolving Minnie of wrongdoings without their spouses' knowledge. After going through the trial together as a class, I don't think Minnie is guilty. As you read when reading this story, Minnie was too young to commit a murder like this. By analyzing the evidence they had and putting our thoughts together as a class, I found that there is not enough evidence to make Minnie guilty. Minnie went through a lot since her husband was a farmer, but that doesn't mean she should have committed murder.