Compare And Contrast A Jury Of Her Peers And Trifles

Alkalay-Gut, Karen. "Jury of Her Peers: The Importance of Trifles." Studies in Short Fiction 21 (Winter 1984): 1-9.

The point of view of Trifles is third person limited which means the story or in this case the play is focused on one character, but the “Jury of her Peers” point of view is third person objective which means you don’t know what’s going on in the story.

“Trifles” and “A Jury of Her Peers” are extremely similar to one another. Most of the dialogue is taken directly from the play and placed into the short story. There are two main differences: the first is the difference between the titles and the second is the difference in characterization.

“A jury of her Peers” and Trifles are works of literature. In these works, they depict the murder of Mr. Wright. The men accuse Mrs. Wright to the murder of her husband, however are they are trying to find evidence to prove this. Both works are loosely based on the murder of John Hossack, which Glaspell reported on while working as a news journalist for the Des Moines Daily News. Hossack's wife, Margaret, was accused of killing her husband. However, Margaret argued that an intruder had killed John with an axe. She was convicted but it was overturned on appeal. In the play Trifles and the short story “A Jury of her Peers”, Susan Glaspell conveys how she transforms the play to the short story by change in the plot, the characters, and the themes of Female vs men and freedom

Has justice ever been served outside of the courts? Two stories, “Trifles,” and “ A Jury of Her Peers,” are both written by Susan Glaspell. They both tell the same story except, they are told from two different points of view. The two points of view keep quotes from characters the same, but it changes what kinds of details the reader is given.

Although “A Jury of Her Peers” and “Trifles” are similar in plot, Mustazza’s article, “Generic Translation and Thematic Shift in Susan Glaspell’s ‘Trifles’ and ‘A Jury of Her Peers’” highlights the differences and similarities between the two. Mustazza’s article may help aid readers to understand the differences between Glaspell’s two works and provide understanding as to why Glaspell may have changed the genre and form of the plot. “Trifles” is a dramatic play whereas “A Jury of Her Peers” is prose fiction. While some differences may be seen on the surface, other differences will need to be inspected closely. Mustazza’s article may help one to understand Glaspell’s works by providing analysis and additional perspectives on both “A Jury of her Peers” and “Trifles”.

“A Jury of Her Peers,” is a story about a farmer’s wife who is accused of murdering her husband. Referred to fundamentally as a writer, Glaspell's short fiction went to a great extent unnoticed until 1973 when her short story, "A Jury of Her Peers" was rediscovered. Despite the fact that the creator of forty-three short stories, Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers" is her most broadly anthologized bit of short fiction and is dependent upon a real court case Glaspell secured as a news person for the Des Moines Daily. The story, which she acclimates from her one-enactment play Trifles in 1917, has pulled in the consideration of feminist researchers for its medication of sexual orientation related topics. On its surface, "A

“A Jury of Her Peers” is a short story written by Susan Glaspell in 1917 illustrates early feminist literature. The two female characters, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale, is able to solve the mystery of who the murderer of John Wright while their male counterparts could not. This short story had been adapted from Glaspell’s one-act play Trifles written the previous year. The play consists of the same characters and plotline as the story. In both works, Glaspell depicts how the men, Sheriff Peters and Mr. Hale, disregard the most important area in the house, the kitchen, when it comes to their investigation. In the end, the women are the ones who find clues that lead to the conclusion of Minnie Wright, John Wright’s wife, is the one who murdered him. Both of Glaspell’s female characters illustrate the ability to step into a male dominated profession by taking on the role of detective. According to Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide, written by Lois Tyson, a reader-response critique “focuses on readers’ response to literary texts” and it’s a diverse area (169). Through a reader-response criticism from a feminist lens, we are able to analyze how “A Jury of Her Peers” and Trifles depict how a patriarchal society oppresses women in the early twentieth century, gender stereotypes confined both men and women and the emergence of the New Woman is illustrated.

“Trifles” a play written by Susan Glaspell is also a short story named “A Jury of her Peers”. These two forms of writing that are similar in many regards but somewhat different when taken a closer look through. The following with compare and contrast the genres of the story, give a detailed reasoning on why one is better than the other, and a preference on which title is better and alludes more to the writing.

In the early 1900's Susan Glaspell wrote many works, two stand out, the play "Trifles" and the short story "A Jury of Her Peers". Trifles was written in 1920, while "A Jury of Her Peers" was written the following year. Trifles was written in only ten days. The true greatness of these works were not recognized until the 1970's.

In many ways life is all about perspective and how we view things in life like crime, justice, and people. Which is expressed in Susan Glaspell’s texts “Trifles” and “Jury of her Peers”. In these stories you see two different perspectives to one story. While both stories have comparative traits it also had some differences. “Trifle” and “Jury of her Peers” demonstrates how justice is viewed by different point of view and characters.

Women’s rights were a significant issue in the nineteenth century, and in “A Jury of Her Peers.” The men overlooked the rights and problems that the women in “A Jury of Her Peers” were enduring. Women, however, through these issues, have been able to come together. In “A Jury of Her Peers,” the journey of women’s rights portrays women’s unity.

Unit 8 Essay If you have ever read both the play Trifles and the short story “A Jury of Her Peers”, both by susan glaspell, then you’ve probably realized that they are the same story, if you haven’t then you aren’t missing much. The story is about a murder case lead by the sheriff, the county attorney, and hale while mrs.hale and mrs.peters are downstairs gathering mrs.wright's, the wife of the victim and the prime suspect, things when they accidentally discover the evidence and the motivation that would convict mrs.wright without a second geuss and decide to hide it from the investigators, their husbands, because they sympathize with her. While “a jury of her peers” and Trifles are the exact same storey written by the same author, the way

The similarities in Trifles and A Jury of Her Peers are very clear. They have the same plot, characters and theme. Throughout both of these works of arts some characters that are portrayed are Mrs.Hale, Mrs.Peters, Sheriff and so many more. The same concept is put out in both of these pieces of work. A man is killed and we somehow have to find out who killed this man with the little evidence we have.

Critically analyzing stories based on the elements of fiction can give readers a more in-depth perspective on the authors true meaning to what is written. In Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers", irony, theme, and plot and structure are applied well throughout. When analyzing this story, it can not be judged on how appealing or entertaining it is, but whether or not it fully achieves its central purpose and how significant that purpose is. In this story every element mentioned has worked together to bring this tale to life.