sentences:  Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are both shown to stay inside the house of Minnie Foster while the men go outside to do their "real work" of investigating this crime.Although women are entrapped into this gendered role, "women's lives are both shaped and empowered under the restrictions of a domestic space".Because they stay inside while the men investigate, the two women find the dead canary and figure out the real meaning behind this murder.