A Jury of Her Peers Susan Glaspell was in born in Davenport, Iowa on 1876. She is an American fiction writer that usually writes about women in the society. After graduated from Drake University, she became a journalist, short-story writer, and novelist. She married an American writer George Cram Cook in 1913. (MS Encarta Encyclopedia) Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers” is a short story that presents to us the gender conflict in society. In the last 1800’s, men were the ones that has voice and control over the family. In this story, Mrs. Wright kills her husband for herself and for unequal of freedom. Susan Glaspell favors women in this story because she sees the lack of freedom for women in the society. On the other hand, men were the bad characters in the story because Glaspell wants to show the readers that men should not have all the control in a family.
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