The scene that I choose to write about was in the end when Mrs.
Peters was trying to hide the sewing box that had the dead bird inside of it,
into her pocket. Earlier in the story the county attorney had questioned the integrity
of the sheriff’s wife by asking if she was okay to leave alone in the room. The
sheriff responded by saying that “a sheriffs wife is married to the law”. The
sheriff has just vouched for his wife’s honesty and the sole reasoning that she
was married to him that she would do the correct thing being that she was the
wife of a sheriff. You would thing by following the social norms that she would
have immediately showed her husband what she had found. But in fact she did the
complete opposite of this. I find it compelling that Mrs. Peters had the courage
to be able to do this. The reason that I think she does this is because not
only were they invading her privacy while she was down at the jail. But since
there was no real hard evidence that the Minnie foster did not kill her
husband. She didn't want there to be more circumstantial evidence that could
possibly work against her. Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hales had been snooping around
while the men were looking other places and they were able to determine that Minnie
foster had been stopped in the middle of something but they weren't able to
figure this things out prior to the ending of the story.
Mrs. Peters defiantly is courageous to hide the box with the bird. Even though she was obviously bothered by the circumstances, I thought she was going to tell her husband the truth in the end. I was surprised when she sided with Mrs. Hale and allowed the box to be hidden. These women were stereotyped by the men in the story. The men believed that the women were not very smart when in fact they figured out what really happened. Their experience as women guided them to the answers quite easily. The men would not have ever noticed the clues that he women did. For example the stitching on the quilt and the condition of the kitchen
ReplyDeleteI think it is very interesting that the sheriff said his wife was trustworthy because she is married to the law. Normally you don't think of a person as their job, some people love what they do but your job should not define you fully. It sounds like instead of meaning that she's trustworthy because she married him, he means that she is trustworthy because she does what he says (or so he thought apparently.) A partner is usually an important part of someone's life so it would take a lot of courage to do something you know they would not approve of.
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