Comparison of Susan Glaspell’s Play Trifles with her Short Story “A Jury of Her Peers”
The play Trifles and the short story “A Jury of Her Peers” both are similar stories but different genres of literature. Susan Glaspell wrote them both in the same era. Both titles are very significant and have meaning behind the title themselves. The women worry about all the “trifles” and ultimately a jury of her peers decided Minne Foster’s fate, quite literally. Karen Alkalay-Gut speaks about how the trifles are very trivial matters, however the trifles Glaspell writes about are important in telling the story.
“Underlying this attitude is the assumption that the women’s lives are individually trivial, and their only strength and/or success can come from …show more content…
Hale and Mrs. Peters both conceal the evidence of the investigation and their husbands dismiss them. However, Susan Glaspell wrote the play Trifles first and then a year later chose to write A Jury of Her Peers, even though we find the similarities in each, they do have differences. Trifles and A Jury of Her Peers both speak to people differently, many readers prefer to read short story’s more and others prefer play versions. In both the play and short story, though, the women are putting the evidence together and seeing a motive for …show more content…
Justice is served like a ghost, by the symbolism of how Minnie’s husband died, the dead canary, she took away his voice the same way he did with killing the canary. “But as Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters gather household goods for Minnie Wright, the two characters begin to reconstruct the accused woman's life. They do so through several means: memories of her, memories of their own lives (similar to her life in many ways), and speculation about her feelings and responses to the conditions of her life.” Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are reminiscing about the memories they share and about the similar lives they have with
The play Trifles and the short story “A Jury of Her Peers” both are similar stories but different genres of literature. Susan Glaspell wrote them both in the same era. Both titles are very significant and have meaning behind the title themselves. The women worry about all the “trifles” and ultimately a jury of her peers decided Minne Foster’s fate, quite literally. Karen Alkalay-Gut speaks about how the trifles are very trivial matters, however the trifles Glaspell writes about are important in telling the story.
“Underlying this attitude is the assumption that the women’s lives are individually trivial, and their only strength and/or success can come from …show more content…
Hale and Mrs. Peters both conceal the evidence of the investigation and their husbands dismiss them. However, Susan Glaspell wrote the play Trifles first and then a year later chose to write A Jury of Her Peers, even though we find the similarities in each, they do have differences. Trifles and A Jury of Her Peers both speak to people differently, many readers prefer to read short story’s more and others prefer play versions. In both the play and short story, though, the women are putting the evidence together and seeing a motive for …show more content…
Justice is served like a ghost, by the symbolism of how Minnie’s husband died, the dead canary, she took away his voice the same way he did with killing the canary. “But as Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters gather household goods for Minnie Wright, the two characters begin to reconstruct the accused woman's life. They do so through several means: memories of her, memories of their own lives (similar to her life in many ways), and speculation about her feelings and responses to the conditions of her life.” Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are reminiscing about the memories they share and about the similar lives they have with