The story of ​“A Jury of Her Peers”​ took place in a rural agricultural area of Tennessee,

when there was a obvious division of gender roles. The effect to the story by this kind of place is
that it creates a sad and depressed atmosphere and foreshadows us to the plot of the story. As
the story progress, the author describes more about how the seasons are like, how the place
looks like and how the weather are. The author mentioned about the “storm-door” rather than
mentioning the a normal door, which indicates the weather in the beginning of the story as a
stormy one. Later on in the story, everything gets more intense as the author mentions more
about something odd, bad stove, and a broken bird cage door. With all these things, they do not
only create a dark mood and tone to the story, but also foreshadowing the fact that worse things
are going to happen in the plot, increasing tension and interest gradually.

Many things in the setting are used as a symbol to reflect Mrs.Wright’s life. The author
starts the symbolization by giving the readers clues about when the story takes place, and later
describing objects in order for the readers to compare them with Mrs.Wright’s life. The first
element that was mentioned was the period of time between the end of Winter and in the start of
Spring, indicating Mrs.Wright in the present time. The Winter symbolizes her life when
oppressed by her husband, but when she decides to murder him, season changes into Spring,
symbolizing a new life where she wouldn’t have to be imprisoned by her husband. The season
leads to the next symbol, being the jam jar. It represents her mental state, pressured by the
coldness of Winter, representing her husband as well, that Mrs.Wright couldn’t stand any
further, breaking the jar. The next symbol is the bird which shows how Mrs.Wright was treated
during the past years. The author writes about the similarity with those two that they loved to
sing. Being stuck in bird cage could be interpret that the bird didn’t have freedom at all, just like
Mrs.Wright that she couldn’t go where else to make friends. These symbols that are thoroughly
emphasized by the author are trying to express the same thing about Mrs.Wright not getting
freedom. This could convince the reader very well about how Mr.Wright, as a man, did
something incorrectly.

The setting are used to express a message to the readers in all period of time about
women rights. The author tries to convey a message to the reader through almost every part of
the literature by using symbols and mood, obtained from the settings, to at least raise an
awareness of woman not being treated well by men. The dark depressing mood that the author
use make the readers feel like woman are being pushed to their corners by men. The symbols
of Mrs.Wright being oppressed throughout the story, obtained from both nature and objects, are
being emphasized so much to raise awareness to the readers, so that they could at least keep
these facts in mind. This message contributes to the story as a whole by making the story
focuses on this message, which makes it easier and more effective to convey because only one
core value is being told again and again.