No Justice for the Short-film Judgment Was Minnie Foster going to quilt it or knot it? When this question arose in the short story A Jury of Her Peers, two women were slowly piecing together Minnie Foster’s murder mystery, and when the dominant male characters overhear the women’s conversation, they merely scoffed and couldn’t seem to understand why the women were worried about ‘trivial things’. Little did they know, it was the ‘trivial things’ that gave clues to figuring out the motive for the murder of Minnie Foster’s husband. In the 1900’s, Susan Glaspell artfully and skillfully pieces together this murder mystery in her short story, A Jury of her Peers, which was originally adapted from her one-act play Trifles. Stephen Kale, an aspiring
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Glaspell uses an abundance of colorful imagery, with vivid details in her short story A Jury of Her Peers. For example, Glaspell gives vivid descriptions like when describing the demeanor of Mr. Wright, “…But he was a hard man, Mrs. Peters. Just to pass the time of day with him-like a raw wind that gets to the bone.” and this is just one of the numerous descriptions that Glaspell incorporates throughout her short story (Glaspell, “A Jury of Her Peers”). However, these elements are not portrayed in Kale’s short film, everything is explicitly stated and we do not get to experience the thoughts of the characters or the fine details in this film like we do in Glaspell’s short story. For example, in Kale’s film, the main character Laura, directly states “Paul was abusive, and [Minnie] she just took it, and the last straw was when he killed her cat” (Kale, “Judgment Part 2”). Whereas, we really get to know Minnie in Glaspell’s short story within the implicit details of the text; through the thoughts of the women, the state of the house and items they discover in her house. The loss of details in Judgment, causes Kale’s short film to stay very surface-level, whereas in Glaspell’s short story, we really get to break beneath the surface and experience the characters on a whole different level. Kale chooses to use black and white imagery in his short film, which also really takes away from the details of this film. When black and white imagery is used in his film, we are then unable to experience the colors, textures, and the composition of the characters. The complex details that Glaspell uses in A Jury of Her Peers, is really what makes her short story come to life and the audience uses the vivid descriptions to build their own image of the story. Kale fails to provide the same amount of colorful and vivid details in his
Glaspell uses an abundance of colorful imagery, with vivid details in her short story A Jury of Her Peers. For example, Glaspell gives vivid descriptions like when describing the demeanor of Mr. Wright, “…But he was a hard man, Mrs. Peters. Just to pass the time of day with him-like a raw wind that gets to the bone.” and this is just one of the numerous descriptions that Glaspell incorporates throughout her short story (Glaspell, “A Jury of Her Peers”). However, these elements are not portrayed in Kale’s short film, everything is explicitly stated and we do not get to experience the thoughts of the characters or the fine details in this film like we do in Glaspell’s short story. For example, in Kale’s film, the main character Laura, directly states “Paul was abusive, and [Minnie] she just took it, and the last straw was when he killed her cat” (Kale, “Judgment Part 2”). Whereas, we really get to know Minnie in Glaspell’s short story within the implicit details of the text; through the thoughts of the women, the state of the house and items they discover in her house. The loss of details in Judgment, causes Kale’s short film to stay very surface-level, whereas in Glaspell’s short story, we really get to break beneath the surface and experience the characters on a whole different level. Kale chooses to use black and white imagery in his short film, which also really takes away from the details of this film. When black and white imagery is used in his film, we are then unable to experience the colors, textures, and the composition of the characters. The complex details that Glaspell uses in A Jury of Her Peers, is really what makes her short story come to life and the audience uses the vivid descriptions to build their own image of the story. Kale fails to provide the same amount of colorful and vivid details in his