Bad days are the worst and when one has to wait in one room for a long period of time to be placed in another room to decide the verdict of someone's life ; bad results are bound to happen. An unfortunate feature of a bad day is the heat resulting from a loud argument or a hot, excruciating day in a crowded city. The time and setting of Reginald Rose's “Twelve Angry Men” will be used to show how conditions in the jury room are related to the jurors' attitudes but are not ultimately consequential to an irrational verdict. The show opens on the courtroom scene where the jurors I had just spent several hours listening to the case in a very hot room, which mixed with boredom can cause posturing. It's a scorching day in downtown New York and the air conditioning isn't working in the courthouse. Court officials realize the problem and attempt to solve it with "a water dispenser, paper cups, a wastepaper basket, and an electric fan above the bench" (5). Hospitality is always a nice gesture, but the inconvenient weather makes the situation difficult, so everyone's mood is agitated. The men try to open the windows and take off their heavy jackets, but without a cool breeze there is only so much they can do. The complaints begin when jurors express their opinions: “You know what? …This is the hottest day of the year. The sixth juror nods and looks out the window. You would think they would have at least air conditioned the place. I almost died in court” (6). The first vote is underway and all the jurors except one vote guilty, this juror doesn't care about the conditions, and the others apparently want to escape the heat and leave. Immediately some jurors shout at juror eight for interrupting their plan to leave, for most of them he has somewhere to go and... half of the paper... away and more thoughts are shared in the boy's favor. The verdict for the boy seems to have veered towards more justifiable reasons rather than respectful discussions; any disrespectful discussion was suddenly ignored. The time and setting of Reginald Rose's “Twelve Angry Men” were used to show how the conditions in the jury room were related to the jurors' attitudes but were not ultimately consequential to an irrational verdict. The hot day and the long wait that accompanied the case to decide whether the boy was guilty or not of his father's murder were initially taken lightly, then reasoning and discussion filled the room. Careful thought is required to decide the life of a human being and that is what the eighth juror had in mind when he took the stand, regardless of the conditions. Works Cited Rose, Reginald. Twelve angry men. New York: Penguin, 2006. Print.