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In the story 'A Jury by Her Peers' by Susan Glaspell, do the two women decide to reveal to the men with them what they suspect is the motive behind the murder?

1) True
2) False

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No, in 'A Jury of Her Peers,' the two women do not reveal their suspicions about the motive behind the murder to the men. They covertly protect the accused by withholding information crucial to understanding her emotional state and motive.

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In the story 'A Jury of Her Peers' by Susan Glaspell, the two women, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, do not reveal to the men what they suspect is the motive behind the murder. They bond over the understanding of the accused woman's circumstances, recognizing the signs of her unhappy marriage that the men dismiss as trifles. The women find a dead canary entwined in a piece of fine sewing, which they understand to symbolize the murdered woman's life and silence. This understanding leads them to conceal the evidence, in effect forming their own 'jury,' sympathizing with the emotional plight of the accused, and choosing not to share their discovery with the men, who likely would not understand the importance of such 'trifles.'

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