1. Do a Psychological Analysis of one of the women characters (Mrs. Hale or Mrs. Peters) to explain what motivates her to act as she does.
2. Explore the theme of Isolation/Need for Human Companionship in the story.
3. Make a case for or against punishing Minnie Wright for her crime.
4. Argue how the setting of the story explains why the events of the story occurred.
5. Argue how societal expectations related to gender influenced the events of the story