A Jury Of Her Peers Feminist Analysis

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Men and women have different characteristics that might give them the supposition of superiority. “A Jury of Her Peers,” Mrs. Peters is described as “small and thin and [without] a strong voice, which means she doesn’t look like a sheriff’s wife” (190). The narrator describes Mrs. Peters as a weak lady. Usually women look more feminists and they don’t have strong voice like men. On the other hand, Mr. Peters, better known as the sheriff, is described as “the kind of man who could get himself elected sheriff- a heavy man with a big voice, who was particularly genial with the law-abiding…” (190). Mr. Peters has power not only because he is a man but because he is a sheriff, so his community seems him with authority. People expect that her wife

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