("A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell pg. 189)
("The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin pg. 331)
This was not my favorite assignment. I really could not do a good job understanding "The Story of an Hour." However, I am going to try and make some sense of it :) I feel like these two stories are both dealing with the aspect of both marriage and death in some way. In both stories, the themes deal with a couple who has been separated by death. I can not imagine the feeling of someone that you have spent most of your life with just dying. In "The Story of an Hour," the wife is accused of murdering her husband by hanging him from a rope. When asked about her husbands death, she acts very nonchalant...almost like she does not care. In "A Jury of Her Peers," the main character's husband has just died. She has herself locked inside of her room just looking out enjoying the view. This gives the reader the idea that she has a sense of freedom that her husband is now passed on. Both stories deal with wives who are not very upset that their husbands are dead. If t was me, I would be devastated. In contrast, one woman dies from a "joy that kills" while the other one is tried for murder. Both women display hardly any concern or grief for their lost spouses. "A Jury of Her Peers" never tells us whether or not the wife actually killed her husband.
:)lgj
There were so much more to both stories! In "A Jury of Her Peers," Minnie was so alone and devastated when her husband murdered the only thing she had, her canary, that she murdered him. In "The Story of an Hour," Louise was happy because she felt free after she heard about her husband's untimely demise. You cannot say that if you were so alone and that your husband was cruel that you wouldn't have the tiniest feeling of happiness upon his death. I have felt this way before. My ex-husband was abusive and yes, I loved him... but there were times that I would have jumped for joy at his death... If that makes me a mean and cruel person than I simply can't help that....
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