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        <title><![CDATA[The irony lies in &quot;Wright&quot; being translated to...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/jury-her/group/discuss/mr-wright-3811#3</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The irony lies in &quot;Wright&quot; being translated to &quot;right.&quot;  Mr. Wright did not treat his wife well at all.  He destroyed two very important parts of her life:  her love of singing and her pet canary, who provided her with so much joy with its singing.  Remember that when she was younger, her husband suppressed her love of singing, which had been one of her passions.  This soured her and crushed her spirit. After years of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 8 Jul 2008 11:45:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Well, Mr. Wright was NOT Minnie's &quot;Mr. Right&quot;.  He was cruel,...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/jury-her/group/discuss/mr-wright-3811#2</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Well, Mr. Wright was NOT Minnie's &quot;Mr. Right&quot;.  He was cruel, angry, and intent on isolating her from her friends, family, and the things she enjoyed doing.  When she bought a bird to sing with as she used to sing in the church choir, he killed it by wringing its neck.  It is most fitting, then, that he should also be strangled.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 8 Jul 2008 11:04:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mr. Wright]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Explain the irony of John Wright's name and the way he died.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 8 Jul 2008 10:36:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[At first, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are stunned, but soon they find...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[At first, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are stunned, but soon they find reason to both empathize with their former classmate and friend, Minnie Foster (now Wright.) As Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters talk, they feel guilty about ignoring Minnie; they always found some excuse to put off the visit.  Her husband was cold and cruel and made the women feel uncomfortable and unwelcome.  But as their conversation continues, the pair recall the Minnie of their...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 5 Mar 2008 14:22:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The play is called &quot;Trifles&quot; and the short story from which...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The play is called &quot;Trifles&quot; and the short story from which the play was written is called &quot;A Jury of Her Peers&quot;.   In both titles, we get a glimpse of what the play is about--the women are Minnie's peers.  They are her equals...NOT the men.  The men all throughout the story tease and conjole the women about the small things they concern themselves with--the &quot;trifles&quot; of their lives.  For instance, the broken...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 5 Mar 2008 12:13:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In &quot;A Jury of Her Peers,&quot; why did the women choose to hide the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In &quot;A Jury of Her Peers,&quot; why did the women choose to hide the evidence of finding the bird?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:47:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The basic plot of this story, which becomes the play, Trifles, is a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The basic plot of this story, which becomes the play, Trifles, is a woman by the name of Minnie Wright has killed her husband, John Wright.  They live in a secluded farmhouse, and he is not kind to her.  He even kills her canary which the reader assumes was the one bright spot in her hard and isolated life.John is already dead and moved from the house.  In fact, we never even meet Minnie.  We get to know her from the state of her house,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:46:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the plot of the story, A Jury of Her Peers?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/jury-her/q-and-a/what-plot-story-16591</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What is the plot of the story, A Jury of Her Peers?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:34:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The play is written in the early 1900's in an agricultural community in...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/jury-her/q-and-a/what-setting-this-story-time-place-15743</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The play is written in the early 1900's in an agricultural community in America.  Probably mid-west, but no specifications were made.  This setting is important since Minnie was isolated and alone in her misery.  Had she not been, things may have turned out differently for her and her husband.The author, Glaspell, wrote the play after seeing an article in the newspaper about an abused woman who killed her husband.  Apparently, like...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:46:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The story takes place in the early 1900s, probably between 1920 and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The story takes place in the early 1900s, probably between 1920 and 1930. The setting is a place called Dickson County, though no state is specified. See the Salem Press article linked below as well as the eNotes introduction and summary.&#160;]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:50:16 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the setting of &quot;A Jury of Her Peers&quot; in time and place? ]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the setting of &quot;A Jury of Her Peers&quot; in time and place? ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:33:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There are two interpretations that respond to your question.  In one...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/jury-her/q-and-a/who-protagonist-antagonist-this-story-14787</link>
        <description><![CDATA[There are two interpretations that respond to your question.  In one reading, the absent, imprisoned Mrs. Minnie Foster is the protagonist for the meaning and action  revolve principally around her:  it is her story that her neighbors, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale tell. She functions beyond herself as a character; she represents the women who figure out her story, because in many ways her life is theirs—which is why they understand it. The...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 8 Jan 2008 03:56:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Who is the protagonist and antagonist in the story, &quot;A Jury of Her...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Who is the protagonist and antagonist in the story, &quot;A Jury of Her Peers&quot;? ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:00:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The characters are:John and Minnie Wright: John's murder (his wife is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The characters are:John and Minnie Wright: John's murder (his wife is the main suspect) is what sets the story in motion. Neither of them actually appear in the story. Martha Hale: The only character to appear in the entire story, she is sympathetic to Minnie and helps conceal evidence.Sheriff Peters: The lawman who wants to close the case and doesn't listen to the women in the story.Peters' Wife: She is also sympathetic to Minnie Wright and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:46:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Who are the characters in A Jury of her Peers?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Who are the characters in A Jury of her Peers?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:38:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Martha's strengths would be her loyalty and sympathy for Minnie. She has...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Martha's strengths would be her loyalty and sympathy for Minnie. She has known her for at least twenty years, and uses this knowledge to consider the crime.Her weakness would be that she allows herself to be the judge. By concealing evidence because it would indicate Minnie in the death of her husband, she has  decided that she is fit to judge the case herself. ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 6 Nov 2007 14:14:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are the strength and weaknesses of Martha Hale's character?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are the strength and weaknesses of Martha Hale's character?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:21:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[&quot;Trifles&quot; means small things, insignificant details.  While...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;Trifles&quot; means small things, insignificant details.  While it is these &quot;trifles&quot; that give away Minnie's guilt, the women are the only ones who pick up on them.  They put themselves in her shoes as any one of them might have done the same thing had they been in her situation.  They recall the Minnie they knew before her marriage and all see what being married to such a cold man and isolated in such an unforgiving...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:13:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Because the &quot;jury&quot; judging Minnie Wright (Foster) have...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Because the &quot;jury&quot; judging Minnie Wright (Foster) have acquitted their peer of murder. The women, her neighbors and friends, understand that Minnie has been overworked, abused, and neglected.Glaspell's overarching theme is that women's work is anything but &quot;trifling&quot;; without it, men, women and children could not survive.  It is women who do the canning so that all may eat in the winter, women who cook the meals and clean...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:25:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How is A Jury of Her Peers a more fitting title than Trifles?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How is A Jury of Her Peers a more fitting title than Trifles?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:16:00 PST</pubDate>
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