This entire short story has built a mystery with context involving two woman being the main focus and their accidental stumble on a horrifying truth that they wish to never had known in the first place. With dialogue involving how “somebody wrung its neck” (578) and leaving it with a suspenseful note where the woman hide the evidence that they found. In this comparison and contrast, of Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles” and the story “A Jury of her Peers” elaborating, on the changes made to the story focusing on the characters, the structure, and theme between the two.
To start with, is the variety in the characters in between the play and the short story that have some little details that could be easily overlooked unless given a second glance. …show more content…
PETERS. [after taking a step forward]: I’m not--cold. (1.1.3)
The statement that Mrs. Peters says loses a compelling factor for being apart of a play and when it comes to the short story it becomes much more compelling even when she reacts to the …show more content…
The play’s two biggest themes happen to be isolation and violence, which is also the same for the story. The reason isolation is a big deal is that it connects Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Wright together in away that isn’t noticeable by the characters. Mrs. Hale doesn’t feel isolated, but she can only imagine what Mrs. Wright felt like day in and day out in a house all by herself without any kids to deal with or any company. This easily can mean that Mrs. Wright just happen to fall over to the deeper end of the pool, but then she realized she couldn’t swim out of the isolation she felt from her life. A big contributor to this is violence because of the dead bird found by Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peter. The reason Mrs. Hale has been mentioned is that she shares a story of her kitten being killed in front of her and if she hadn’t been restrained she would have harmed the person who killed it. Mr. Wright can only be suggested as the killer of the little bird, but Mrs. Wright can’t be ruled out since killers usually start out kill animals before people. Expanding on a new topic, with the story being the main focus it shows us just more descriptive texts that help establish the isolation and violence as themes. Being isolated can mean just being cut off from any type of thing that one might have done beforehand, like how Mrs. Wright sung for the
To start with, is the variety in the characters in between the play and the short story that have some little details that could be easily overlooked unless given a second glance. …show more content…
PETERS. [after taking a step forward]: I’m not--cold. (1.1.3)
The statement that Mrs. Peters says loses a compelling factor for being apart of a play and when it comes to the short story it becomes much more compelling even when she reacts to the …show more content…
The play’s two biggest themes happen to be isolation and violence, which is also the same for the story. The reason isolation is a big deal is that it connects Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Wright together in away that isn’t noticeable by the characters. Mrs. Hale doesn’t feel isolated, but she can only imagine what Mrs. Wright felt like day in and day out in a house all by herself without any kids to deal with or any company. This easily can mean that Mrs. Wright just happen to fall over to the deeper end of the pool, but then she realized she couldn’t swim out of the isolation she felt from her life. A big contributor to this is violence because of the dead bird found by Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peter. The reason Mrs. Hale has been mentioned is that she shares a story of her kitten being killed in front of her and if she hadn’t been restrained she would have harmed the person who killed it. Mr. Wright can only be suggested as the killer of the little bird, but Mrs. Wright can’t be ruled out since killers usually start out kill animals before people. Expanding on a new topic, with the story being the main focus it shows us just more descriptive texts that help establish the isolation and violence as themes. Being isolated can mean just being cut off from any type of thing that one might have done beforehand, like how Mrs. Wright sung for the