The irony of the matter was the manner in which Mr. Wright was murdered and the motivation behind it. Before his murder, Mr. Wright strangled his wife's canary; this, coupled with years of unhappiness and possible abuse, caused Ms. Wright to snap. After her bird was strangled, Mrs. Wright murdered her own husband by strangling him while he slept. The rope means that the death of Mrs. Wright's only happiness is what threw her overboard, because there was a gun in the house. The irony of the evidence was who found it and solved the case. Because of the doctrine of separate spheres, men were responsible for finding evidence because of their membership in the political public sphere. The women were there solely to obtain items for Mrs. Wright from the private sphere of her home. However, it was the women who found the evidence, not the