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In the short story, "A Jury of Her Peers" and a one-act play, Trifles, written by Susan Glaspell, a woman is being accused of murder. ... The title "A Jury of Her Peers" focuses the reader on the fact that the women prove Mrs. ... Peters being a "jury" and not convicting Minnie Wright lends credence to the argument that women do struggle against male oppression. ... So while the title "A Jury of Her Peers" emphasizes the struggle of women against the uncaring men, "Trifles" emphasizes the actual dismissal of the women. ... They hear from men all their lives that they couldn’t recognize a clue if they saw it, that they be concerned only with trifles and that the tools and implements of their lives become unimportant along with their feelings and motivations. ... Wrights housekeeping habits they are told that "women are used to worrying over trifles". ... Had the men not degraded the women and their "trifles," they could have found the evidence they sought. It is this "worrying over trifles" that allow the women to deftly determine the motive. ... Hales husband, with good-natured superiority, "women are used to worrying over trifles.” But it is precisely these types of "trifles" that eventually prove to them that Mrs. ... The women, on the other hand, “used to worrying over trifles”, do attach importance to the “everyday things”, and looking around the cheerless kitchen, they see many examples of the miserably hard existence of Minnie Wright.
Approximate Word count = 1097
Approximate Pages = 4.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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