A Jury of Her Peers

In this short story written by Susan Glaspell, the characters within A Jury of Her Peers come into a situation in which they must make tough decisions regarding life or death circumstances. Throughout the story there is the use or repetition. This repetition is important because of placement and the meaning behind the words and phrases repeated. The first I find to be important is the repetition of the descriptive word "Queer" and the second is the repeated phrase "Knot it".
Queer is important because it is vastly used by the author as a choice selection in diction in order to both hint the reader on to the tone and feeling that the characters are implying and feeling within. From describing the scene of the murder, the words of the characters, and the current situation, the diversity of the placement was purposefully done by the author to help the reader connect the dots within the plot and get a feel for what is going on in the characters understand of the plot.
The phrase knot it was important and mostly used near the end of the story. This repetition was vital because it added a bit of irony and humor to those reading. It was important because it showed what had happened to both the bird and Mr. Wright. Irony was displayed when the county attorney asked them about the quilt, and they replied with, "We call it-knot it, Mr. Henderson,"(295) meaning both the method for quilting and how the evidence for the motive were being withheld by Mrs. Hale.