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. ...

• Word Count: 1048
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 550
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 871
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The Author Susan Glaspell shows an obvious stereotypical attitude by men towards women in her story, A Jury of Her Peers. ... (Glaspell Pg. 74) Mrs. ... (Glaspell Pg. 72) She most likely got upset due to something that her husband had done, and she got riled up and was rough with the bird cage. ... (Glaspell Pg. 73) After raging on the cage for while she probably fanaticized about killing Mr. ...

• Word Count: 1347
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

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). ...

• Word Count: 1498
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell is a story relating to a husband, John Wright, who was found strangled in his bed. His wife, Mrs. Wright, is suspected of her husbands murder and is remanded by the police. The story commences the next day when the sheriff, his wife, the county attorney and th...

• Word Count: 547
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

"A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell is a story relating to a husband, John Wright, who was found strangled in his bed. His wife, Mrs. Wright, is suspected of her husbands murder and is remanded by the police. The story commences the next day when the sheriff, his wife, the county attorney and th...

• Word Count: 547
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1195
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• Grade Level: High School

In the early nineteen hundreds women were treated as peons by the men of that era. In the early 1900's as well women were not to have jobs and not to have friends or anything for themselves. They were to do just as their husbands had said. Although there is more symbolic imagery in Trifles and mo...

• Word Count: 883
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Everyone is based upon his or her own physical characteristics and traits. These two elements make up a person and how their peers view them. In "A Jury of Her Peers", Susan Glaspell specifically chooses certain character traits for each character i...

• Word Count: 1505
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School