One common theme that is used by Susan Glaspells’s short story “A Jury of Her Peers” and Henrik Ibsen’s play “ A Doll House” is where women stands in a male dominated society. Firstly, “ A Doll House” uses dialogues without narration to play out the theme without directly declaring it. At the beginning of the play, the conversation between Nora and Torvald seem normal, no one would expects the length Nora would commit to be able to protect her family like forged her father’s signature to borrow money or working odd jobs to pay off the debt, even when society deem the women’s role not to. “A Jury of Here Peers” exhibit its theme through explicit details of the setting, actions and dialogues. For example, it take the narration and the dialogues
