"Minnie Wright" Minnie Wright is the major character in Susan Glaspell's short story "A Jury of Her Peers." We learn about her, however, not in the first person, but through her two neighbors, Mrs Peters- the sheriff's wife - and Mrs Martha Hale. As we follow these two women, we learn Minnie endured twenty years of mental abuse and neglect at the hands of her husband. We also see how Minnie changes because of the …showed first 75 words of 695 total…

…showed last 75 words of 695 total…she was about!'" (211). Minnie changes from timid to agressive. She uses the knowledge she had of quilting to repay a life for a life. Through many years of neglect and mental abuse, Minnie Wright changes from a timid, vivacious young woman with a creative spirit, to an aggressive, lonely, disheartened woman. Who when pushed to the edge with the death of her pet canary, uses a quilting knot to strangle her husband to death.