Name: Nofar Lev Class: 2'‫י‬

A Jury of Her Peers Bridging

1. Re-read the short story “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell.
2. Complete the bridging writing assignment. Your answer must be at least 100-140 words
long.

● Analyze Mrs. Peters’s and Mrs. Hale’s actions and conversation in the Wright home. How
do these women in this story support each other on a deeper level than just gathering items
for Mrs. Wright?
● Make connections between the short stories “A Jury of Her Peers” and “Lamb to the
Slaughter”. How are the literature pieces similar? How are they different?

In your bridging writing, remember to:

1) Write about the short story in your own words.
2) Write about the bridging text in your own words.
3) Write about the connection between the bridging text and the short story.
4) Add a quote or details from text to support your answer.

Good luck! 💜
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In "A Jury of Her Peers," Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale support each other on a deeper level than
just gathering items for Mrs. Wright by empathizing with Minnie Wright's experiences as a
woman in a men-controlled society. While gathering items for Mrs. Wright, the two women
discuss how lonely Minnie must have felt, and they get a sense of how much she is
struggling. Through their conversation, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters bond over their shared
experiences as women, and they understand the significance of standing up for one another
in the face of injustice. As Mrs. Hale notes, "We all go through the same things - it's just the
different ways of handling them." it highlights the women's shared experiences of
oppression and their need to support each other.

Just as in "A Jury of Her Peers", in "Lamb to the Slaughter," the female protagonist, Mary
Maloney, finds herself in a situation in which she must defend herself and her unborn child.
Despite the differences in setting, both stories deal with themes of oppression, justice, and
the limits of the law. Both stories also feature female characters who are underestimated
and undervalued by the men around them, but who prove to be more capable and
resourceful than anyone expected. While "A Jury of Her Peers" ends on an unclear note, with
the women silently agreeing to protect Minnie Wright, in "Lamb to the Slaughter" there was
a more public act of revenge, when Mary Maloney killed her husband with a frozen leg of
lamb.