The one-act play by Susan Glaspell called Trifles tells a short story. Not only was her play, “A Jury of Her Peers” adapted from the production several months after its amazing opening debut, but it was known all over. The play was executed by Provincetown Players at the Wharf Theatre in Provincetown in Massachusetts on August eight, 1916. The play Trifles was a very inspirational play that involved important themes, a lot of symbols, and essential setting points. The sheriff Henry Peters and
“A Jury of Her Peers” is an excellent title for this story because it describes the understanding that the women shared with one another as to what Minnie Wright had gone through and what she was still going through, and the women came to the conclusion that she was innocent of murder. Trial by jury is when someone is faced with charges which are heard and viewed by a jury of peers and women were not allowed to sit on a jury at the time the story was written. The play shows factors that have
Susan Glaspell does a fantastic job at making her story “A Jury of Her Peers” capture her audience’s and keep their eyes glued to her words, and her play Trifles is great and keeping the readers on the edge of their seats. Imagine eavesdropping on people who are talking about something scandalous, like a woman killing her husband. Hearing something like that would have the listener go “ooh” and interest them, but there is not much to know besides what is being said with little-to-no background information
dominant. Before the County Attorney goes upstairs with Mr. Hale and the Sheriff, the County Attorney has a conversation with Mrs. Peters. “Yes, but I like to see what you take, Mrs. Peters, and keep an eye out for anything that might be of use to us” (Glaspell 920). This sentence from the County Attorney shows that he does not believe in Mrs. Peters. This man thinks that women cannot be trusted and is scared that women will destroy the evidence. In the “The ‘Trifles’ of Feminism,” Christina McClure states
“The Story of an Hour” and “A Jury of her Peers” are short stories based on married life for women in the 19th century. During this time period women had no rights and were expected to get married, raise children, and do household chores without doing anything for themselves. Works of literature written during this time by American women provide insight to the predicaments of married middle-class white women in the 19th century. The women discussed in these stories while alike, are very different
through the words of both Edith Wharton’s, “Roman Fever” and Susan Glaspell’s, “A Jury of Her Peers” we are set to define how movement and the story’s setting interact to portray a certain tone of each character involved. As each story progresses, we notice that both stories settings play a major role in the nature and detail with each group of characters to reveal an unpredicted ending. Whether the kitchen in Mrs.
clearer picture and insight. Moreover, without knowledge of the setting it becomes increasingly more difficult to understand and relate to the events, ideas, and characters of a story. In the following stories, “A&P” by John Updike, “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell, and “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, the correlation between the settings and the themes or ideas presented is substantially conveyed. Sammy, the protagonist in “A&P”, goes against the norms of his time period by defending
and Susan Glaspell were two progressive women who believe in women obtaining more freedoms and rights. Gilman wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper,” a horrifying short story about a woman steadily descending into madness from the doings of her husband. Glaspell wrote, “A Jury of Her Peers” which is a short story concerning themes of crime and justice as detectives and their wives investigate the house of a crime scene where the wife is the prime suspect. “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “A Jury of Her Peers” represents
Trifles is a one-act play written by Susan Glaspell in 1916. In the play, Glaspell makes great use of irony, symbolism, and metaphors, she also makes a great play for the newly emerging feminist movement. We first see women’s suffrage and fight for equal rights taking root in the 1840’s, and then in the 1890’s a movement, termed the Feminist movement, began to take place. This movement advocates women’s suffrage and fight for equal rights, and challenges the long-standing nature of the “female role”
A Jury of Her Peers is a short story by Susan Glaspell that focuses on the interaction of men and women and how badly women were treated in the 19th century. The story revolves around the murder mystery of John Wright in his own house. George Henderson, the district attorney, Lewis Hale with his wife Martha Hale, a couple whom were close neighbors to the Wrights, and Henry Peters, the sheriff, with his wife, Mrs. Peters. While the three men look for evidence to incriminate Minnie Wright, the wife