The Importance Of Point Of View In 'Jury Of Her Peers'

The author uses 3rd person omniscient point of view in addition to 1st person point of view. The point of views shift between a narrator and five characters throughout the entire short story in order to help the readers understand the family dynamics during a stay at a lake house in Canada. The narrator is used to provide an unbiased description of the characters and events taking place, while each character also offers their own narrative and views. Without the multiple point of views offered, the reader may only understand that Portia’s frustration with George led her to killing herself, discounting the clear issues that Prue and Pamela had exposed the family to as well.

In this deeper look into 'Trifles,' Karen goes through the plot and discusses what you should pay more attention too. She describes the symbolism in some of the objects as well as explain the scenes and their little details. Karen finds the difference between male and female perceptions of judgment to be central to the play. She explains that you need to follow the storyline of the women to help solve the case and discusses the differences between a man and a womans world in this time period. Karen shares that she believes the women are going about the case better than the men and she

At the beginning of the short drama, “Trifles,” Mrs. Peters, the sheriff’s wife, is painted as timid and submissive wife. She willingly submits herself to the responsibilities she has as a wife. As the play unfolds, Mrs. Peter’s submissiveness begins to diminish. Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale work together to uncover the murder of Minnie Wright’s husband. When the women find the evidence, they refuse to share it with the men. Mrs. Peter’s character transforms into a more confident individual over the course of the play.

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.

The bond between women can be unbreakable. Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles” and “A Jury of Her Peers” show how two women overlooked can find all the pieces to a missing puzzle but decide on there own justice; silence. If you break down the word trifles it means something of little value. When Hale stated, “Well, women are used to worrying over trifles” (Glaspell 1040). That was a shot at woman saying they are always worrying over nothing and from that point on it was as if the mindset had changed in both women. By using the gender strategy to analyze how Mrs. Peter’s and Mrs. Hale knowingly covered up a crime because of the bond and sympathy they each felt for Mrs. Wright.

The definition of trifles is “the meaning of little value but very important”. The point of view is Very important and in Trifles the point of view is third objective in the play the problem was they were trying to figure out if Mrs wright has killed Mr wight.but in the play they looked over and didn't pay much attention to things that could have helped within the crime. Because of the play getting straight to the point is a reason why we had to guess how the character were feeling. We had to figure out the tone to see if there were sad ,mad ,happy etc.

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.

Susan Glaspell's texts, Trifles and “A Jury of Her Peers” relay a singular story setting, but are different in the styles in which they are told. While there are many similarities and differences between the texts, the perspective and point-of-view play a big role in the telling of the overall story. The different changes of point-of-view can change, “Well, Mr. Hale, tell just what happened when you came here yesterday morning” (Trifles 209) to “‘Someone should have been left here yesterday,’ said the county attorney” (“A Jury of Her Peers” 2). The change in either the point of view or perspective can change the way how we interpret a text and can also modify the material given. The point of view of the stories may both be a form

As I stated above, “Trifles” only gives the reader or viewer knowledge from the outside looking in. The short story “A Jury of Her Peers” doesn’t give the reader first person feelings and experiences, however, the narrator of the story does give the reader any thoughts or feelings of the characters that may be needed to better understand the story. The narrator is an important part in the change between the play and the story. The narrator gives us information about each family, how people are related, what things look like, what the weather is like, and many more small details that we would not have known otherwise. For example, when arriving at the Wright house, the narrator says “It looked very lonesome on this cold March morning.” This short sentence gives the reader so much information that we don’t know about in the play. We now know that it is in the morning when they are going to examine the situation, and that its in March, so it's kind of cold still coming out of winter. We also know that the Wright house looks lonely. This picture that the narrator puts in the readers head is one that sets the tone for the whole story. One that we don’t fully get until halfway through

In many plays there is a narrator to set the scene and establish the characters. In Glaspell's "Trifles" there was no narrator, so the characters established themselves and spoke in first person. In "A Jury of Her Peers" there was a third person narrator who spoke for the characters part of the time and seemed to discreetly introduce and explain the action after it had occurred. There was some suspense for the characters as to who killed John Wright in "A Jury of Her Peers", but the play was more suspenseful as the women's findings were pieced together before their very own eyes. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters were constantly in defense of Mrs. Wright in the narrative as the name suggests.

In Trifles, the women uncover the dirty truth hidden away in the Wright’s house. As they do this the women become sensitive to Mrs. Wright who is the murderer in the story. Both Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters humanize Mrs. Wright instead of just looking at her like a criminal.

Mrs Susan Glaspell was a writer during the end of XIX and first half of the XX centuries. Two of her great works were “Trifles” and “Jury of Her Peers”. The two of them have similar plots and characters, we can even say that they are the same the main difference that we notice is that one is a play (Trifles) and the other one is a short story (Jury of Her Peers). Analyzing both of them more in deep another differences were found like the point of view, on one side, one of them is third person limited and the on other one is third person objective. In addition, the characterization are way different.

In Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles,” five members of a small town investigate the murder of a neighboring farmer, John Wright. While George Henderson, the county attorney, Henry Peters, the town sheriff, and Lewis Hale, John Wright’s neighbor who discovered the murder, investigate the farmhouse for evidence, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters gather clothing and other belongings for their friend and murder suspect, Mrs. Wright. However, while the women are waiting inside the house, they discover incriminating evidence against Mrs. Wright. Instead of providing this evidence to the men, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters conceal the evidence due to the guilt they feel for not being a good friend to Mrs. Wright. Because the women interfere with a murder investigation, the audience encounters suspense as to if the women will get caught

In contrast to the men who are the county attorney and sherriff, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are just recognized as “wives”. The conflict unfolds when the men mock the women for paying attention to small details or female things such as the quilt that Mrs. Wright failed to finish. By contrast, the women arrive at a home. Suzy Clarkson Holstein states, “Although neither they nor the men realize it, they too are conducting an investigation” (283). Mrs. Peters even apologetically says, “Of course they’ve got awful important things on their minds” (Trifles I, i). Which highlights the traditional submissiveness of a woman to a man. Ironically, these details are what allows the women to solve the mysterious case. The men continue to look for more hard evidence meanwhile their wives have pieced the whole thing together in a matter of minutes. This goes to prove that Susan Glaspell believed women are more concrete than men. She belives that women pay attention to every detail because they know it’s the little things that can count the most. Susan Glaspell also highlights women empowerment through the actions of the wives. They find evidence that points directly to Mrs. Wright and the fact that she

Trifles, a play written by Susan Glaspell takes place in the home of Mr. and Ms. Wright. County attorney Henderson, Sheriff Peters and his wife, and Mr. and Mrs. Hale, neighbors of the Wright family, investigate the Wright home after Mr. Hale came across Mr. Wright’s carcass. Mr. Hale went to visit Mr. Wright in hopes he would come into town with him. While investigating the house, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters discover multiple tiny clues that could seal the deal for Mrs. Wright’s prosecution such as the fruit preserves, the dead canary, and the fact that Ms. Wright did not wake during her husband’s rendezvous with death. Based on their own intuitions and knowledge of Mrs. Wright, the women agree to keep these clues hidden to prevent Ms. Wright from being proven guilty.