Compare And Contrast Trifles And A Jury Of Her Peers

In Susan Glaspell play Trifles there is a murder investigation going on. The sheriff and the attorney feel that there is no important evidence in the kitchen where Mrs. Wright spends most of her time. Obviously, the man does not pay any attention to the women's world. The men constantly look over all the trifles that point to the motive of the murder and the evidence of a depressing life Mrs Wright has. Mrs.Hale and Mrs.Peters stays in the kitchen having a conversation. They begin to discover necessary confirmations of Mrs.Wright's guiltiness of murdering her husband, but they come to a conclusion that Mrs.Wright is not accountable for the murder.

Trifles is a play by Susan Glaspell taking place in and around a farmhouse in 1916. The owner of the farmhouse, Mr. Wright, is found dead when his neighbor Mr. Hale makes an unannounced visit early one frigid morning. As he lets himself into the farmhouse he finds Mrs. Wright sitting in a rocking chair in the disarrayed kitchen. Eventually, she tells him that her husband is upstairs dead with a rope around his neck. While Mrs. Wright is in custody an investigation is taking place at the farmhouse and those in attendance include; George Henderson, the county attorney; Mr. Hale; Mrs. Hale; Henry Peters, the sheriff; and Mrs. Peters. While searching for a motive at the farmhouse the men were distracted because during that time period women were cast into low positions in society leading the men to mock the women in this play written by Susan Glaspell whom is known to produce work with strong feminist concepts.

The film A Jury of her Peers, is similar to the play, Trifles because it highlights similar points that are referenced in the text and is clear it was used as a basis for the foundation of the film. The names of Mr. and Mrs. Wright are changed to Mr. and Mrs. Burke. The use of facts to outline the climax, are the same as used in the play. Such as the building of suspense of the discovering of the bird and its strangulation and whether Mrs. Burke or Mr. Burke is to place blame. However, as an adaptation, opinions are added into the original framework of the play to add a touch of personalization. The film interprets the drama as a murder mystery, as the attorney and the sheriff search the household to find evidence to place blame on Mrs. Burke. A jury of her Peers, works to portray the emotions of Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale, as they discover items that would, (if found by the men) possibly prove her guilty (Bourne, 2013).

and Mrs. Hale, Sheriff Peters and his wife, and Mr. Henderson. The character’s dialogue, for the most part is no different in each story. Though there are similarities in plot, characters, and dialogue, there are differences in the title of each work and the point of view of each work. First, the title Trifles is suggestive that females are of little importance to the men. One of the male characters indicates that women tend to worry about things that are of no consequence. The title also subtly references the fact that women tend to notice the trifling things. This is evident by the fact that the men make fun of the women for wondering about a quilt Minnie was making while the women noticed an uneven square sewn into an otherwise evenly sewn quilt. They used this clue to conclude that the farmer’s wife was nervous about something. Although the title “A Jury of Her Peers” seems to indicate that someone will be judged by a jury in a court, the actual jurors are the farmer’s wife’s peers. The jurors, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, can understand what the farmer’s wife is like because they are her peers. The women empathize with the farmer’s wife and hide incriminating evidence from the men. It is with this action that the women take revenge on the male dominance they must live with each day just as the farmer’s wife took her revenge out on her husband for killing her bird. Another difference is the point of view of each work. Trifles is a one-act drama and the reader must rely on actions of the characters to try to understand each characters point of view while “A Jury of Her Peers” has an omniscient narrator who is able to tell the reader the thoughts of the characters. For example in “A Jury of Her Peers” when Mr. Hale asked Mr. Peters to tell him what happened when he arrived at the house the day before, the narrator gave the reader access to what was going through Mrs. Hales’ mind as her husband gave his account of what

Susan Glaspell wrote many pieces. Trifles and ¨A Jury of Her Peers¨ are just two examples. Trifles is a play, while ¨A Jury of Her Peers¨ is a short story. Trifles and ¨A Jury of Her Peers¨ are very similar but have many differences as well.

Before A Jury of Her Peers came Trifles, a play about the investigation of an unlikely suicide following a couple of women that withhold evidence that could convict their friend of murder. Trifles was published in the same year it was first performed on the eighth of August, 1916 and shortly after was turned into a short story on March 5, 1917. However, regardless of both stories sharing plot and direction they have enough differences to warrant varying opinions depending on which rendition they are. Coincidentally, both stories excel in certain fields the other does not. Furthermore, The differences between the play Trifles and the short story A Jury of Her Peers are subtle and forthright

Both written by the same author Susan Glaspell, Trifles and A Jury of Her Peers is the same story told through methods. By itself, some minimal differences are between them. The creator of both Trifles and A Jury of Her Peers emphasized the deception of men’s predominance over females in both pieces. Although Susan Glaspell's play Trifles" utilizes on-screen characters to vocalize the numerous feelings of the narrative of the investigation of Minnie Wright, her short story "A Jury of Her Peers" makes the feelings clear without making a sound.

In 1916, Susan Glaspell wrote the play Trifles. The following year, she wrote it as the short-story “A Jury of Her Peers.” The story and play are about a woman who is charged with her husband’s murder and a group of people including neighbors, the town sheriff, and the county attorney. Although Trifles was changed from a play to a story, it and “A Jury of Her Peers” can be compared and contrasted in many ways including the details, the formatting, and the text itself.

Susan Glaspell’s one-act play “Trifles” centers around the murder investigation of Mr. Wright (John) in his own home. Minnie Wright is almost assuredly the murderer as when asked by Mr. Hale about his whereabouts she calmly answered that he is dead upstairs with a rope around his neck. Reacting

Trifles is a one act play that contains several characters trying to decrypt a crime scene. During this, the author showcases one type of third person: third person objective. Third person objective is when neither the audience nor the author know the thoughts or feelings of any of the characters. In the play Glaspell writes,“Why, I don’t think she minded--one way or another. She didn’t

Susan Glaspell wrote both Trifles and a “Jury of her Peers” two stories that are nearly indistinguishable from one another. The subtlety of Trifles is purposefully ironic, the devil is in the details of both the play and the short story. The short story takes us into a little more detail than the play, revealing things unspoken and thoughts that could not be conveyed on the stage. There are many themes of this story, the societal place of the women, justice and that details are important in solving a mystery.

It was transformed into a narrative called “A Jury of Her Peers”. Comparing the two side by side, Susan Glaspell transformed the play “Trifles” into the short story “A Jury of Her Peers” by making changes to the themes, the characters, and the details.

The situation presented in,”Trifles,”is a woman, Mrs.Wright, who was belittled by her husband, and was pushed to the point that she murdered him. Mrs.Wright was in gruesome state of mind due to neglect. The county attorney, George Henderson, and the sheriff, Henry Peters go to Mrs. Wright’s house to scavenge for evidence. Mrs. Peters, the sheriff’s wife, as well as Mrs. Hale, a neighbor, go to the house to be of assistance in the search of pining Mrs.Wright guilty. When the group entered the farm-house their perspective of the event that occurred was inflicted. “She- come to think of it, she was kind

Trifles is a play that is an investigation of the murder of John Wright. The sheriff and the county attorney arrive with at John Wright's farmhouse to look for evidence. Mr. Hale tells the story of how he discovered Mr. Wright strangled with a rope and how Mrs. Wright was acting strangely. He describes the murder as a gruesome act to kill a man by strangling the victim since it was a gun in a house. The men investigate for evidence for a motive to convict Mrs. Wright, the wife of John Wright. The men try to find something to show anger or a sudden feeling. The men pass judgment on Mrs. Wright due to her dirty kitchen. Women were not seen as a dangerous creature during this time. So putting away a woman must take hard course evidence to convince