A Jury of Her Peers

What are the motifs in A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell?

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Public vs. Private Life is a recurring idea in the story. The men investigating the crime are unsuccessful in determining a motive that would have prompted Minnie to kill her husband because they are in unfamiliar territory. The division of public and private life IN the early twentieth century was very clear. Women remained Isolated IN the private sphere as homemakers, and men were required to function in the public world as breadwinners.