What is so suggestive in the ruined birdcage and the dead canary wrappedin silk? What do these objects have to do with Minnie Foster Wright? What similarity do you notice between the way the canary died and John Wright’s own death?

What will be an ideal response?



  • The birdcage has been violently opened and the bird has died by having its neck wrung. Clearly, John Wright has viciously killed his wife’s pet—one of the few joys in her life, if not the only one—to spite her. The manner of his death—with a rope around his neck, having the life choked out of him—obviously suggests a deliberate act of retribution for the strangling of the canary, a retribution that only one person would be motivated to undertake. The “thing that would connect up with this strange way of doing it” that the County Attorney is hoping to find, it points all the more strongly to Mrs. Wright.

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