Incomprehension, struggle for identity and conflict between male authority and female resistance .
are unquestionably evident throughout the stories. The three stories have a very significant meaning for the women in today's world. First of all, they are all written by female authors. Secondly, they address issues that are often considered taboo even now in the 21st century. They talk about the place of women in today's society; from their roles as wives and mothers, through physical abuse to the objects of entertainment in the male oriented and dominated world. .
Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers" talks about a woman who killed her husband after being physically and mentally abused. The author showed how that woman changed physically from being a lovely and outgoing to being sad and depressed after living in such conditions. The female and male investigators arrive at the scene, they see different things while looking at the same. For the female the unfinished quilt with only one block stitched crookedly and strangled canary were proofs of domestic violence. The men bypass these details and will probably never affix blame to the guilty wife. This story speaks volumes about a fact that men and women see and hear the world differently; that women communicate in a sort of spoken and unspoken language that males very often cannot comprehend. .
In the "Jilting of Granny Weatherall" written by Katherine Anne Porter we meet a dying woman, who is trying to reconcile her life. We learn that her life was unfulfilled because of unrealized dream of marrying biggest love of her live who rejected her at the wedding day. In shame and humiliation and spiteful pride she marries another man, whom she dutifully serves, even in the long years after his death, by nurturing his four children and by managing efficiently the economy of household and farm. But, without awareness, she is serving mainly her lost lover.
