Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers"

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This paper examines the myths about women by men in a patriarchal society as portrayed in Glaspell's short story, "A Jury of Her Peers."

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"Glaspell demonstrates how the cultural norms and myths about women in "A Jury of Her Peers" affect the women characters' sense of self by creating an incident where the women are forced to reckon with the myths that have been created about them in their patriarchal society, and to come to terms with the reality of their feminine self-definition. Through the unfolding of events in the story, we readers see the women characters' sense of self evolve. Their realization is important not only to the outcome of the story, but also, to the women readers who may see themselves in the roles of those characters. "A Jury of Her Peers" supports this thesis. "

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