Susan Glaspell

in a crime story is normally dividing by the law abiding citizens from the criminal, the characters here are soon divided on the basis of sex differences.” (Alkalay) In Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles” Glaspell uses a murder investigation of a woman’s husband to demonstrate the different roles of men and women in the early 1900’s. Glaspell shows the reader, through small significant objects that the men think are inessential to illustrate the greater value women have other than merely taking care of a…

When I saw the title of Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers,” the first thing I expected was a court case that would take place with a real jury consisting of a woman’s peers. However, this story was actually about two women, their husbands, and a county attorney searching a house to attempt to figure out a murder case. While the men attempt to figure out the how the women secretly learn why. As the women walk around the kitchen, they discover half-completed task after task. They find…

“Trifles”, by Susan Glaspell both presents us with two women that are strongly oppressed by men in their society, they are shown in…

to figuring out the motive for the murder of Minnie Foster’s husband. In the 1900’s, Susan Glaspell artfully and skillfully pieces together this murder mystery in her short story, A Jury of her Peers, which was originally adapted from her one-act play Trifles. Stephen Kale, an aspiring…

In the play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell and the short story “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, the authors portray a woman’s want for independence and the serious problem women’s oppression was around the early 1900s. The oppression they depict is so influential that it creates character development in the main female characters and the reader can watch as this happens throughout both the play and the story. Both the story and the play have story lines that need to be understood before they…

trope, there is a victim, an unknown murderer, and the detectives. At the end of the story line, the murderer is discovered and punished, fulfilling the need for justice. However, in “A Municipal Report” by O. Henry and “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell, the authors add a twist. In their stories, one feels that justice has prevailed when the victim is murdered, not when the murderer is caught. In both of these short stories, the literary technique of Vampirism is used to add background…

pop culture today and can be found in dozens of television shows. Oxygen network seems to be an entire network dedicated to shows that involve some, in not all of the themes presented in Susan Glaspell’s play. Women have not had an easy life throughout the history of the United States, and while Susan Glaspell was writing the play, (pre-1916) women were just starting to gain a voice. World War I was taking place, sending thousands of men to fight on the front lines, and leaving thousands of…

Trifles v.s. A Jury of Her Peers “A Jury of Her Peers” and “Trifles” are two very similar but, different works of literature by Susan Glaspell. The stories both involve a murder mystery concerning the same characters and the same crime. This is a comparison and contrast essay between the play, Trifles, and the short story, A Jury of Her Peers, focusing on feminism, sexism, and Minnie Wright’s character. “A Jury of Her Peers” is the story being focused on first. Feminism plays a huge role in…

In her short story, “A Jury of Her Peers” author Susan Glaspell indites about the investigation of a murder that occurred at a farmhouse in the country. Two women unearth evidence cognate to a crime that the Sheriff and the local prosecutor are investigating, a farmwife's murder of her husband. While sitting in the kitchen of the farmhouse, the two women uncover clues that point to a history of psychological abuse that led Minnie Wright to strangle her husband. The women discover the ostensible…

right. However, the way that the story’s author, Susan Glaspell, establishes this theme is far more unexpected. On its surface, the story itself is a rather disturbing murder-mystery about a woman who is believed to have murdered her husband. However, observant readers will take note of the subtleties of the story that establish the theme. So, yes, “A Jury of Her Peers” is, at its heart, a story about women being repressed by their husbands- but Glaspell establishes this theme through the use of…