Trifles and ¨A Jury of Her Peers¨ are two different works, but include the same plot, characters, setting, and even author. So, what really separates two texts? Can we consider these texts the same thing simply because of their story, or does point of view have enough impact to differentiate the two pieces entirely? ¨A Jury of Her Peers” and Trifles are the same story with very different perspectives, comparing the texts characteristics will help us grasp how important point of view can be.
The first major similarity is the setting, both stories happen at the same exact place during the same time. The setting is discussed in Trifles, as seen in this quote. ¨ The kitchen in the now abandoned farmhouse of John Wright, a gloomy kitchen, and …show more content…
Trifles is told as a play, in third person limited, where you can only see what people say, not what individuals are thinking. Conversely, in “ A Jury of Her Peers”, it is told as a short story, where not only can we see what people say, we are let in on what Ms.Hale thinks of the whole situation, expanding upon what we knew in the play and giving reason to Ms.Hale’s speech choices. In “A Jury of Her Peers” Ms.Hales thoughts are expanded upon. (“"I wonder how it would seem," Mrs. Hale at last began, as if feeling her way over strange ground--"never to have had any children around?" Her eyes made a slow sweep of the kitchen, as if seeing what that kitchen had meant through all the years "No, Wright wouldn't like the bird," she said after that--"a thing that sang. She used to sing. He killed that too." Her voice tightened.”) Here we can tell that Ms.Hale is distressed and uncomfortable, where in Trifles we could only make assumptions about how she may be feeling. This example shows that the two texts are in fact different enough, due to point of view alone, to be considered separate works driven by the different points of view and
The first major similarity is the setting, both stories happen at the same exact place during the same time. The setting is discussed in Trifles, as seen in this quote. ¨ The kitchen in the now abandoned farmhouse of John Wright, a gloomy kitchen, and …show more content…
Trifles is told as a play, in third person limited, where you can only see what people say, not what individuals are thinking. Conversely, in “ A Jury of Her Peers”, it is told as a short story, where not only can we see what people say, we are let in on what Ms.Hale thinks of the whole situation, expanding upon what we knew in the play and giving reason to Ms.Hale’s speech choices. In “A Jury of Her Peers” Ms.Hales thoughts are expanded upon. (“"I wonder how it would seem," Mrs. Hale at last began, as if feeling her way over strange ground--"never to have had any children around?" Her eyes made a slow sweep of the kitchen, as if seeing what that kitchen had meant through all the years "No, Wright wouldn't like the bird," she said after that--"a thing that sang. She used to sing. He killed that too." Her voice tightened.”) Here we can tell that Ms.Hale is distressed and uncomfortable, where in Trifles we could only make assumptions about how she may be feeling. This example shows that the two texts are in fact different enough, due to point of view alone, to be considered separate works driven by the different points of view and