Jury Of Her Peers-Compare And Contrast Essay

A farmer’s wife held for the murder of her husband. Who could be capable of understanding why she would do something like this? The story of this murder is told in the short story A Jury of Her Peers and in the play Trifles, both by Susan Glaspell. In both pieces of work, the investigation of this crime is taken place, but in slightly different points of view. Both of these stories show the opposite positions men and women have in society, but the short story shows more the feelings of how one of the characters tried to avoid reality, and how she realizes the truth. In both stories, it portrays to the viewer how women are treated by some people in society. Both stories tell the same storyline of a woman who is being held for the murder of her husband. In the short story, “Jury of …show more content…
Held for murder, and worrying about her preserves!”(Glaspell). In the play, “Trifles”, the officer says the same thing, “Well, can you beat the women! Held for murder and worrying about her preserves”(Glaspell). It’s interesting that this line didn’t change in both of the stories. The author wants to keep this part in both stories. It shows how the men were only focused on one thing, while the women had other things they cared about too, even if the men didn’t really understand. However, there are several things that were slightly different between these two stories, i will mention two of them. First off, the play, Jury of Her Peers shows in more detail the feelings of Mrs. Hale, than in Trifles. There is a part in Jury of Her Peers where Martha Hale is studying the pieces of sewing Mrs. Wright had left, and she inferences that Mrs. Wright was nervous based on the fact that the quality of her