Susan Glaspell, born in 1876 was an American play writer, novelist, journalist, and actress. In her time, she wrote many short stories and plays which began appearing in magazines and journals. One of Glaspell’s best works was a one-act play called Trifles written and performed in 1916. While working as a journalist for Des Monines Daily News, she covered the 1900 murder of John Hossack which is where she received the inspiration for the loosely based play and in 1917 was turned into a short story entitled, “A Jury of Her Peers.” Later adapted into an episode of the 1950s television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents, it then became a 30-minute film in 1980 that was later nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. Both
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While she uses the characters or actors to vocalize the emotions of the story from the play Trifles, Glaspell makes the reader feel the emotions in “A Jury of Her Peers” by including the lengthy and descriptive pages to help the dialogue in her narration. The vivid details of Mrs. Peters’ actions at the end of the story is a great example; the reader can immediately interpret, understand, and appreciate the emotions held by the attorney’s wife from the narration because of the dramatic description of the suspenseful events and after they have happened. This all requires understanding when viewing a play as apposed to reading a few pages; something not everyone can do when they are observing …show more content…
It requires a wider range of imagination than something that has already been offered to the readers, as in the case of the short story. The story, just like most, is easier to interpret as easily as it can be appreciated. The description of the character’s emotions and actions on a short story makes it less difficult for the readers to understand what is really happening in between the pages. Compared to the play, short stories tend to have less imagination and the details have already been supplied by the
While she uses the characters or actors to vocalize the emotions of the story from the play Trifles, Glaspell makes the reader feel the emotions in “A Jury of Her Peers” by including the lengthy and descriptive pages to help the dialogue in her narration. The vivid details of Mrs. Peters’ actions at the end of the story is a great example; the reader can immediately interpret, understand, and appreciate the emotions held by the attorney’s wife from the narration because of the dramatic description of the suspenseful events and after they have happened. This all requires understanding when viewing a play as apposed to reading a few pages; something not everyone can do when they are observing …show more content…
It requires a wider range of imagination than something that has already been offered to the readers, as in the case of the short story. The story, just like most, is easier to interpret as easily as it can be appreciated. The description of the character’s emotions and actions on a short story makes it less difficult for the readers to understand what is really happening in between the pages. Compared to the play, short stories tend to have less imagination and the details have already been supplied by the