Deconstructionism - Assignment Example

Your full July 14, Deconstructionism In “Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell, men stereotype women as the gender that worries unnecessarily due to petty matters. This stereotype gives the idea that it is only men who are worried about important matters or think about taking big steps, and women do not spend a minute pondering over big matters. Since Glaspell had been acting as a court reporter in Iowa, she designed a story in which she showed some rural women pondering over the details of the murder of a man whose wife had killed him.

Women take clues from petty things in the murderer’s kitchen and reach the disclosure of who killed the man.The writer has tried to bring forth the difference in perspectives of men and women, the stereotypes both the genders are associated with, and the oppression that women have to suffer at the hands of men. Moreover, the withholding of evidence by Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale (Glaspel) symbolizes the fact that women are trying to get into a conflict with the men of the society, who think of them as inferior beings.

One theme that is implicitly shown is that women are abused at the hands of their husbands, and it makes them victims of domestic abuse. Mr. Wright has been abusing his wife, which finally makes the latter kill her husband. In the story, men are shown as oppressing their wives, not considering them as intelligent beings in the solving of the case and associating them only with the domestic arena. Works CitedGlaspel, Susan. “Jury of Her Peers”. learner.org. n.d. Web. 13July 2012. < http://www.learner.org/interactives/literature/story/fulltext.html>