Many authors have different types of writing and different ways of telling the story regardless of whether it is a horror type story, a romance type story or even a comedy type story. However, in this story by Susan Glaspell, it is a fiction type story about Mrs. Wright who seems to have lost control of her emotions and outbursts. She kills her abusive husband who is found dead with a rope around his neck while she slept, but no one knows why she killed him. The inequality between Mrs. Wright and Mr. Wright, based on gender, affects Mrs. Wright's sense of enjoyment of life, which explains the reason for Mrs. Wright's murder. Factors such as loneliness, depression, and lack of freedom account for how Mrs. Wright's sense of enjoyment of life has been negatively affected and are the reason why Mrs. Wright killed her husband. Wright's loneliness indirectly causes Mr. Wright's death once sadness is triggered in Mrs. Wright's mind. In fact, in the story it is said that Mrs. Wright is alone and lives in a dark place stating: “I have never liked this place. Maybe because it's down in a valley and you can't see the road. I don't know what it is, but it's a lonely place and always has been. I wish I had come to see Minnie Foster sometime” (Glaspell 270). Mrs Wright does not like the location of the house as it is isolated from the surrounding people and the streets. Apparently when she was young she was a woman full of life and who loved to sing and dance but when she married Mr. Wright, he forced her to change her environment and her life, which led to her killing her husband. This abrupt change in her life affects her characters and behaviors, making her feel alone and not alive... middle of paper... ants who want to take revenge and kill her husband. For Mrs. Wright the song represents the freedom that Mr. Wright took away from her by killing her bird and since she no longer has this right he killed her husband. Mr. Wright took Mrs. Wright's freedom, which was allowed at that time because men had more power than women, so Mr. Wright is allowed to take everything away from her. In this case, it took away her freedom, which Ms. Wright appreciates having. Being deprived of liberty negatively affects Mrs. Wright's sense of enjoyment of life and may be a reason to kill her husband. The reason for Wright's murder is mainly caused by the inequality between Mr. Wright and Mrs. Wright which leads to loneliness, depression and lack of freedom. They all take away her pleasure and enjoyment of life which results in the death of her husband.
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