People tend to relate to one another when they share a subjective viewpoint or they share common experiences. In the short story "A Jury of Her Peers ", Mrs. Peters, Mrs. Hale, and Minnie all female subjectivity as farmers wives. All of these women live in the same town and live very similar lifestyles, which give them s sort of familiarity with each without actually know each other personally. Due to the fact that Mrs. Hale, Mrs. Peters, and Minnie have a shared understanding of each other's lives. This familiarity helps Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters recreate a mental picture of precisely what Minnie's life has been. In the short story the husband lack a sense of subjectivity which leave them unaware of the conditions of the crime. The men go in with an objective viewpoint meaning that they put aside their own subjective experiences and view the situation from a formulaic viewpoint. While the man where looking for specific clues such as a murder weapon, signs of intruders, and forced entry. Mrs. Hale, and Mrs. Peters where looking for explanations that maybe only women who shared the same experiences as Minnie might see. .
While they were in the kitchen Sheriff Peter's try's to sway Mrs. Hale's loyalty to her own sex by saying, "Not much a housekeeper, would you say, ladies? " then Mrs. Hale states that a house does not get dirty by itself, it take two. Mrs. Hale also says that the women are always the only one's expected to clean the house. "Men's hands aren't always as clean as they might be ", Mrs. Hale stated meaning that husbands or men in general aren't always as innocent as they seem. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters feel as if it is their civic duty to defend Minnie because they began to acknowledge that it is a sense of survival for women to stand up against their hostile husbands. They also feel it would be morally wrong to allow Mrs. Minnie someone who they sympathize with to go to jail for murdering are careless and abusive husband.
