Susan Glaspell's Trifles And A Jury Of Her Peers

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”.

Twentieth century society places few stereotypical roles on men and women.  The men are not the sole breadwinners, as they once were, and the women are no longer the sole homemakers.  The roles are often reversed, or, in the case of both parents working, the old roles are totally inconsequential.  Many works of literature deal with gendered roles and their effect on society as a whole or on an individual as a person.  "A Jury Of Her Peers" and Trifles, both written by Susan Glaspell, are works of literature that deal with socially gendered roles during the early nineteenth century.  The two works are almost exactly alike in that the dialogue from "A Jury Of Her

The short story, Harrison Bergeron, is written in a third person point of view. These two pieces of literature show different perceptions

In “Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell Mr. Wright has just been found dead by the cause of strangulation. Despite the fact that his wife Minnie is the prime suspect, she has not yet been arrested as a result of a lack of evidence. Consequently, three men who are joined by their wives, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, have been sent to the Wright’s house to begin the investigation. Finding clues is turning out to be harder than the men thought, however, the women have come across more than enough incriminating evidence to convict Mrs. Wright. Although she does not initially appear capable of murder, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale conclude Mrs. Wright, in fact, strangled her husband as evidence by Mrs. Wright’s quilt, the unhinged birdcage, and poor

A spouse is a filter for how ones significant other is viewed by society. All through the ages women have been judged by their husband’s social standing. In the short story, “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell, Mrs. Peters has to live a life of multiple roles because she is the sheriff’s wife. Having more than one role is a burden on Mrs. Peter’s, and her actions occasionally don’t comply with the ideals that are associated with and expected of a sheriff’s wife. Mrs. Peters is a very quiet person who tended to keep to herself.

From beginning to end, Susan Glaspell’s 1917 short story “A Jury of Her Peers,” has several repetitive patterns and symbols that help the reader gain a profound understanding of how hard life is for women at the turn-of-the-century, as well as the bonds women share. In the story two women go with their husbands and county attorney to a remote house where Mr. Wright has been killed in his bed with a rope and he suspect is Minnie, his wife. Early in the story, Mrs. Hale sympathizes with Minnie and objects to the way the male investigators are “snoopin’ round and criticizin’ ” her kitchen. In contrast, Mrs. Peters, the Sheriffs wife, shows respect for the law, saying that the men are doing “no more than their duty”. However, by the end of the story Mrs. Peters unites with Mrs. Hale in a conspiracy of silence and concealing evidence. What causes this dramatic transformation?

In Susan Glaspell’s short story “A Jury of Her Peers”, the women, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, were able to outsmart the men in the investigation of Mr. Wright’s death by discovering the motive for the murder. Minnie Wright is Mr. Wright’s wife and she is the one who murdered him by strangling him in a room upstairs. The woman in the story, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, figured out the Mrs. Wright killed her husband because there was evidence and hints around the kitchen. The men that came to solve the murder were he sheriff, a lawyer, and Mr. Hale however they completely disregarded looking in the kitchen for evidence instead they just “…laugh[ed] [at] the insignificance of kitchen things” (Glaspell 369). This lead the men to go upstairs in the

“Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell is telling of a wife snapping after a horrifying incident with her husband. The peers seek to find the true behind the killing. The women characters are talk as they are not as important as the men characters. The women hide the bird because, they feel for her due to her husband not allowing her to interact with others and taking what she loved away. The women finding the bird is resolving the fact that Mrs. Wright did kill her husband. The unsolved part is rather the men ever find the bird and convicted Mrs. Wright. The end is satisfying in some parts; the fact the women helped hide the bird is satisfying, but not knowing what happened is unsatisfying. The information about the unfinished

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.

Since the beginning of time woman have been looked at as property and as in home housekeepers. Their jobs were to clean the house, bear children, care for the children, and have dinner ready for the husband when he got home. One story that shows this is Susan Glaspell's play “A Jury of Her Peers”. The play “Trifles” was written in 1916 and was rewritten as a short story. During the play one of the male characters says “‘women are used to worrying over trifles...

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.

In her stories, Susan Glaspell divulges into gender roles, misogyny, and justice. She especially focuses on the lives and experiences of women in twentieth century American society. Depending on the point of view and genre of a story, specific themes can be conveyed and interpreted in different ways. In “A Jury of Her Peers” and Trifles, the tale of an abusive and neglectful husband and a lonely housewife is told through the means of a murder mystery. Both works tell the same story, yet underneath the plot lies second level of depth that can only be understood in “A Jury of Her Peers” through certain writing devices. The differences in the points of views and the genres of the two stories, Trifles and “A Jury of Her Peers”, affect the characterization

Susan Glaspell was a prolific author, playwright, journalist and novelist in the early 1900s. Early in her career as a reporter she wrote many articles including the newspaper coverage of a murder trial known as the Hossack Case when she worked for The Des Moines Daily News in Des Moines, Iowa. This murder trial was a much publicized event in which a woman, Margaret Hossack, was accused of murdering her prosperous husband on the couple’s farm in Des Moines. In these newspaper articles dated from December 1900 through April of 1901, Glaspell gave an account of the murder trial where Margaret was eventually convicted of murdering her husband, John Hossack. Shortly after covering the trial, Glaspell quit journalism and started writing novels, short stories and plays. Two of which were based on her coverage of the Hossack Case. One was a one-act play titled “Trifles” and the other was a short story entitled “A Jury of Her Peers”.

In the particular story “A Worn Path” the third person point of is limited to a singular character, a very old and tired black woman who displays signs of hysteria and dementia. Had this been told in a first-person narrative it would have increased the difficulty of which audience or reader would interpret and decipher the events going on. Welty makes a good decision on her part by avoiding the conundrum that would be if it had been told by the old lady. The story at no points require the reader to know what the old woman is explicitly thinking, but occasion monologue is spoke by the old because of what appears to be weakened mental faculties. On multiple occasions the old lady is talking to herself but the piece of evidence that solidifies the infectiveness of making this lady the narrator is when she forgets why she had pursued the long journey that led her to the hospital, “'My grandson.

There is more dialogue in the story making it a bit more interesting, dialogue “speech in the story” can actually be pretty important, because it let’s the characters explain what is happening