A Jury Of Her Peers Trifles Analysis

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Susan Glaspell in Trifles and “A Jury of Her Peers” uses these two works to talk about and shine a light on how women were treated in the justice system. These two works were inspired by a murderer Glaspell was covering as a newspaper journalist. The two-works focused and evidences to find motive of the murders that occurred rather than who committed the murders. Both Trifles and “A Jury of Her Peers” are very similar in characters but the works differ in the point of view of how we interact with the works. Similarity in characters with Trifles and “ A Jury of Her Peers”, we see that the characters are practically the same with the exclusion of the characters the City Attorney and the Prosecutor. While the characters names differ the character

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