The play "Trifles," by Susan Glaspell shows how a man's perspective is completely different from a woman's. ... Hale says, "Well, women are used to worrying over trifles " (Glaspell 1412). ... Peters responds by saying, "We think she was going to knot it" " (Glaspell 1418). ... Henderson"" (Glaspell 1420). ... "Ah, loyal to your sex, I see. " says the County Attorney" (Glaspell 1413)....

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Susan Glaspell's play "Trifles- highlights the unequal status of men and women that existed in the early 20th century. ... No telling; you women might come upon a clue to the motive "and that's the thing we need- (Glaspell 5). ... - (Glaspell 5). ... She straightened "stepped back, and half turned away, stood looking at it, seeing the woman who had sat there pleatin' at her apron'- (Glaspell 6). ... They support the claim of the thesis that Glaspell used dialogue to show misunderstanding between the men and women. ...

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A Wife and a Woman: A Critical essay of Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers." ... Susan Glaspell's, "A Jury of Her Peers," challenges this classic stereotype of what is expected of a wife and woman. ... (Glaspell 301). ... Wright's ruined jam (Glaspell 300). ... Susan Glaspell, nonchalantly attempted to overcome the stereotype in "A Jury of Her Peers." ...

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In the story, "A Jury of Her Peers" written by Susan Glaspell, Minnie Wright is accused of murder of her husband. ... The story reveals, through Glaspell's use of symbolism, the role that women are expected to play in society. ... Character names are very important in Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers." ... Peters, the sheriff, says "for that matter a sheriff's wife is married to the law" (Glaspell 209). ... Susan Glaspell in her short story "A Jury of Her Peers" illustrates through symbols the life of a woman at the beginning of the 20th century. ...

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Though men and women are now recognized as equal in intelligence, when Susan Glaspell wrote "Trifles" and "A Jury of Her Peers" in 1916, it was not so. ... In Glaspell's story, ironic situations contrast male and female intuition, illustrating that Minnie Wright is more fairly judged by "a jury of her peers." ... Through the situations in "Trifles", Glaspell clearly illustrates a world in which men and women vary in their perception of things. ...

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In Susan Glaspell's short story "A Jury of Her Peers", the female characters Martha Hale and Mrs. ... She wished she had visited when Minnie was there but "there was always something to do and Minnie Foster would go right from her mind" (Glaspell 2). ... Glaspell mentions twice that the women moved closer together as the county attorney discovered the broken preserves, dirty towel and dirty dishes. ...

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In 1916, Susan Glaspell wrote the one-act play Trifles. was originally written by Susan Glaspell as a play entitled Trifles. ... Glaspell was inspired to write the story while covering a murder investigation when she worked as a journalist for the Des Moines Daily News (qtd. in Annenberg). ...

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Author Susan Glaspell was ahead of her time as she blurred the lines of traditional definitions, particularly of marriage and women's roles in society, in the early twentieth century. Based on her play Trifles, Glaspell's short story A Jury of Her Peers illustrates how men and women viewing the same set of circumstances will look at objects differently. ...

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TRIFLES In an investigation men and women handle things very differently and have different views of what really happened. Men underestimate women all the time in today's society. Men believe that women cannot do a "man's job." Men believe that a women cannot do any job better then them. In thi...

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