In this week’s video, Mary Helen Washington touched upon the themes of isolation within the story “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell where Minnie Wright (Foster) allegedly murdered her husband, Mr. Wright. Although this piece had many themes intertwined within it, the one that is drenched with the most is isolation. From Martha Hale’s depiction of the house and it’s unwelcoming atmosphere, the reader gets the idea that Mrs. Wright who was once a happy, illuminating individual, was dwelling in an establishment where it seem odd to that she associates with such setting. With her placement there, she is isolated from her past life and having only but one beam of her hope for herself: the bird. The canary could been seen as a projection of Mrs. Wright since the bird “bright” and “luminous” and just like her is also “caged” in. With her house being described as an unwelcoming setting and the journey to her dwelling was promised with bitter, cold weather, the chances of her peers paying a visit was very low. Glaspell did an excellent job by using the setting to accentuate the characters bringing out the theme of isolation.
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