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A Jury of Her Peers
I assume from the phrase above that you want a description of Minnie Wright and John Wright as characters. Let's begin with John Wright. We first hear about John Wright's personality through John...
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A Jury of Her Peers
The primary literary element present in Susan Glaspell’s short story is irony. This quality refers to a disconnection or reversal between expectations and reality, or to restricting information...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Many aspects of human nature are revealed in Glaspell's story. Most importantly is the intuitive nature of women. The men who come to investigate Minnie assume their wives are not capable of...
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A Jury of Her Peers
The women are better able than the men to find the motive for Mrs. Wright's murder of her husband because they understand her psychology better. The women understand what it is like to live in an...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Arguably, the literary element that permeates both novels, from title to ending, is irony. eNotes's Guide to Literary Elements help you get the complete meaning of irony, and it also gives you...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Exposition: We follow Mrs. Hale from her kitchen to Mrs. Wright's kitchen. We are introduced to the men and the focus of their murder investigation, and we are introduced to the women who are...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Susan Glaspell explores ideas about assumptions and perceptions, especially as related to issues of domestic abuse. Gender plays a central role in these topics. The male characters fail to see what...
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A Jury of Her Peers
The short story "A Jury of Her Peers" tells of a murder investigation in a remote farmhouse. Minnie Foster, the murdered man's wife, has been arrested for killing him and is in custody. Sheriff...
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A Jury of Her Peers
The main theme for A Jury of Her Peers is Gender Roles; much of the tension in the story results from what the women understand and what the men are blind to. The kitchen, during the time the story...
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A Jury of Her Peers
“A Jury of Her Peers” is a short story by Susan Glaspell, adapted from her play Trifles. In both works, Minnie Wright is suspected of having murdered her husband, who has been found dead in their...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Mr. Hale, like the other men investigating Mr. John Wright's murder, doesn't seem to think much of Minnie Wright. He never knew her the way Mrs. Hale did, and he is ready to join the other...
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A Jury of Her Peers
This short story based on Glaspell's play Trifles makes a strong case that Mrs. Wright's murder can be justified. The women notice many of the small details of the case that the male detectives and...
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A Jury of Her Peers
In the short story "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell, a group of people arrive at a remote farmhouse to investigate the murder of a farmer named John Wright. They include Mr. and Mrs. Hale, a...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Mrs Hale is an astute investigator as well as being a farmer’s wife like Minnie Wright. She has known Minnie for most of her life and looks to the changes that have happened to her life under the...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Minnie (Foster) Wright is suspected of killing her husband, John, but she hasn't been arrested yet. This is why the men and their wives are at the Wright home, to collect evidence. The story...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Mrs Hale is asked to join the men as they leave to investigate the suspicious death of Mr Wright. She is asked along to keep Mrs Peters – the sheriff’s wife – company. They do not know each other...
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A Jury of Her Peers
The issue of conflict in “A Jury of Her Peers” is complicated because the story is primarily a psychological investigation and secondarily a mystery. There is very little conflict among the...
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A Jury of Her Peers
The women in “A Jury of Her Peers” speak volumes to each other through their silence. Mrs. Wright has been silent throughout all of her married life. Not one of her neighbors suspected that she was...
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A Jury of Her Peers
This line from “A Jury of Her Peers” is an exclamation that Mrs. Hale makes while she and Mrs. Peters are going through Minnie Wright’s clothes. They are choosing some items to take to her in jail....
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A Jury of Her Peers
In "A Jury of Her Peers," Mrs. Peters, the sheriff's wife, accompanies her husband and the county attorney to the home of Mrs. Wright, who has been arrested the previous day on suspicion of...
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A Jury of Her Peers
One way to analyze the narrative structure of "A Jury of Her Peers" is to compare it to the standard murder mystery story. In Glaspell's short story, the sheriff and county attorney pick up Mr....
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A Jury of Her Peers
In Susan Glaspell’s story “A Jury of Her Peers” (adapted from her play “Trifles”), it is Martha Hale who puts the box in her coat pocket. The box contains the dead canary, which both Mrs. Hale and...
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A Jury of Her Peers
While there is no definitive answer, it would seem that Glaspell gave her short story a different title from her play that was published a year earlier in order to distinguish it from this play,...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale are in conflict with the men because of their condescending attitudes. Shortly after Mr. Hale directs the sheriff and county attorney into the Wrights' home where he has...
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A Jury of Her Peers
In any work of literature, the rising action comprises an event, or a series of minor events, that come together to move the action, the plot, forward. In the story "A Jury of Her Peers", the event...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Mrs. Hale is a dynamic and round character in the story "A Jury of Her Peers." Even though she always suspects something is not entirely clear at the scene of the crime, her discoveries...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Before Mrs. Hale, Mrs. Peters, and the three men even get to the domestic setting, Glaspell sets the mood with the external setting. Describing the Wright house, she notes: It looked very...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Minnie Wright is treated like the caged bird: she is imprisoned and isolated in a marriage, the subject of her husband's verbal and emotional abuse. John Wright treats his wife like a domestic...
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A Jury of Her Peers
It's very hard to find any evidence to the men being conscientious of the women. The county attorney especially is very condescending to the women. He makes comments about their conversations of...
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A Jury of Her Peers
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...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Mood and tone are similar things, but are not the same. Be aware of the differences when analyzing a work of literature. The tone refers to the attitude of the author toward the situation of the...
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A Jury of Her Peers
It is ironic that the story revolves around the women's decisions because throughout the narrative, the male characters mitigate the importance of the women and the kitchen. As it turns out, the...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Mr. Wright was found dead in his bed with a rope around his neck. As the story unfolds, the irony of the way he died becomes clearer. Three types of irony related to the cause of death are...
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A Jury of Her Peers
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...
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A Jury of Her Peers
In the story "A Jury of Her Peers," we learn from Mrs. Hale some interesting insights about Minnie Wright (formerly Foster) and her marriage dynamics. We first learn that Mrs. Hale never liked...
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A Jury of Her Peers
There is a tone of sadness when it is revealed that Minnie's life had become so shabby, miserable and isolated when she married. This is first shown in the description of Minnie's chair- It came...
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A Jury of Her Peers
The suspense in the story is largely centred around whether the men are capable of proving that Mrs Wright killed her husband using the evidence they are presented with, and whether the women will...
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A Jury of Her Peers
It is a much changed woman from Minnie Foster who sits in the jail as the story begins. Mrs. Wright has become a rather nondescript and withdrawn woman, while Minnie Foster was vivacious and...
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A Jury of Her Peers
This is a very good assessment of the symbolism of the jars in A Jury of her Peers. The play based on the same story, Trifles, also points to the fact that when the Sheriff and the district...
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A Jury of Her Peers
When Mrs. Hale gets to the Wright property near the start of "A Jury of Her Peers," she notes the lonely and isolated appearance of the farm. The narrator writes, Mrs. Hale scarcely finished her...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Based upon a true incident of February 11, 1882, in which a farmer was murdered and his wife subsequently charged and tried for this murder, "A Jury of Her Peers" chronicles the life of Mrs....
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A Jury of Her Peers
In both Glaspell's short story and her play of the same name, remarks are made by the men about how women focus upon insignificant things, and nothing in the kitchen can be of any consequence in...
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A Jury of Her Peers
The story never actually says to us openly that the two women know Mrs. Wright killed her husband, but for the discerning reader, it makes it clear from the various bits of evidence that are...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Since the plot centers around the discovery of a motive to explain the murder in "A Jury of Her Peers," and the clue to this motive is apparently discovered by Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, it...
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A Jury of Her Peers
Because of the men's chauvinistic attitudes and deprecating comment about women's foolish attention to trifles, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters retreat to the kitchen and, as they straighten things, they...
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A Jury of Her Peers
There are five characters who appear in the story: Sheriff Peters, and his wife; Lewis Hale, and his wife Martha; and Henderson, a county attorney. There are two further characters who are not...
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A Jury of Her Peers
The play is called "Trifles" and the short story from which the play was written is called "A Jury of Her Peers". In both titles, we get a glimpse of what the play is...
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A Jury of Her Peers
“A Jury of her Peers” by Susan Glaspell is based on her one-act play Trifles. The story in both genres was based on an actual murder case that Glaspell reported on when she worked as a newspaper...
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A Jury of Her Peers
In Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers" there is a feminine communion between the two women, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, but because of their interpersonal relationships and their ways of...
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A Jury of Her Peers
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...
