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Compare And Contrast Trifles And A Jury Of Her Peers

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Point of view is an aspect of writing that helps the reader understand the view of a character or characters. Point of view is broken down into different types. You have first person, second person and third person. However, third person gets broken down even more into third person limited, objective, and omniscient. These point of views are fairly easy to recognize in pieces of literature mainly based on the word choice. After reading a few pieces by Susan Glaspell, it's clear that point of view can be shown in all types of literature and that just because the same author has written many pieces, doesn’t mean their point of views will be the same. The drama, Trifles and the short story, A Jury of Her Peers displays the difference in point of views even though …show more content…

That being said, even though Trifles and A Jury of Her Peers are similar in different aspects like their theme and overall story, there are differences that are also easy to recognize like the point of view. Trifles and A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell are two pieces that have a similar layout. A group of people live in a little small town and there was a murder. The suspect is Mrs.Wright, wife of Mr.Wright. Mrs.Wright’s friends, Mrs.Hale and Mrs.Peters have been her support system through all of the investigations and stuff. Ironically, Mrs.Wright wasn’t moved or remorseful about the death of husband and their past can be the blame for this. Many parts of both pieces are worded identically if not the exact same and the meaning is still the exact same. For example, in A Jury of Her Peers, Mr. Hale said "She moved from that chair to this one over here"--Hale pointed to a small chair in the corner--"and just sat there with her hands held together and lookin down. I got a feeling that I ought to make some conversation, so I said I had come in to see if John wanted

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