Mr Hossack Family Analysis

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Overview of the episode: Kale Stephens episode starts with the phone ringing and Lori answering her husband comes off as abrasive, and short as he asks who was she talking to on the phone. Lori seems suspicious of the call. In contrast to Glaspell's original work, the storyline opened with the Hossack family finding Mr. Hossack bludgeoned to death as he slept beside his wife who did not hear a thing. Kale used the friendship of two women, and the visible verbal abuse of one woman’s husband and suspected abuse of the other. In Glaspell's version, Mrs. Hossack was shown as the murderer. There were more detail and emotion in Glaspell. Both used women as the murderer. In Kales modernized version he allows the audience to follow and conclude what

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