Women Get It

     I always talk to my best friend Jamie when I am having one of those weird "girl days" and I am crying for no reason, or when I am just really pissed and I don't know why. She understands, even when I can't put what I am feeling into words. I can just look at her, and she knows. If I go to my boyfriend for these types of days, he freaks out, and thinks he did something wrong. He just doesn't get it. There is a connection between women of all types. I might be a bit of a feminist, but I think the ladies will know what I'm trying to say.
     In the story, A Jury of Her Peers, Minnie has killed her husband. Of course, the men investigating the case, are just trying to prove that Minnie is a savage killer. Not thinking of why she might have done such a thing. During the investigation, two women are there collecting Minnie's valuable things to take to her. While doing this, they see things in Minnie's house that aren't right. Like things being half done. They know that leaving a kitchen table half clean isn't right. Mrs. Hale has known Minnie before and after her marriage. She knows what a lively person Minnie can be, but she hasn't seen that side of Minnie since  she became married to John.
     Mrs. Hale knew that Minnie loved to sing, and when she and Mrs. Peters find the mangled bird wrapped in cloth and tucked away in a little box, they could feel the pain Minnie suffered through until she snapped. They decide to keep their findings a secret to help protect Minnie. They know that their husbands would not understand. Mrs.Peters even kept it from her sheriff husband, after she claimed that the law is the law.
    So, women get each other. Our outrageous emotions, bad hair days, and emotional abuse and trauma. This story just proves that we have each other's backs.

Works Cited

Glaspell, Susan. A Jury of Her Peers. Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing. Ed. Edgar V. Roberts. 9th ed. New York: Pearson Longman, 2009.193.