A Jury of Her Peers

Martha Hale and her husband, along with his wife, were taken by a sheriff to the isolated house of Wright brothers. Hale told the authorities that Mr. Wright discovered that he was strangled the previous morning. Mrs. Wright insisted that she did not know about who killed him. She was arrested and was waiting for accusation

Mrs. Hale and sheriff 's wife will collect clothes and will see her crispy fruit. Men laugh at women 's "trivia", remember with jokes not to miss any clues, then turn their attention to their "more serious" work of finding motivations. In the patch basket for the quilt, the woman found a hanged canary. In the work like a quilt, they decided to join the hard life of the third woman and hide the evidence that might lead her to sin.

There are many signs of minnlite abuse and violence in the kitchen, and women obviously see these signs, and men ignore these signs. In front of the women sitting in front of the jury, this story raises questions about the gender side of justice, the accidentality of law, and the construction of psychiatric diagnosis, especially crime madness. It is based on Graspel's early play "Otori", and in 1916 she played the role of Mrs. Hale in her first performance at Providence.

Susan Glaspell, a girl 's feminism and her companion judge as a powerful feminist, wrote "Trifles" and translated it into a story called "her companion judge". These works represent Graspel's views on how women are treated in the corner. Graspel is a respected feminist, but her story does not include the traditional feminist opinion on gender equality. The short story is very similar to that written by Susan Grass Pell. The story takes place in an old country town in the early 20th century.

As a playwright, Grasspell's short story was ignored until 1973. Glaspell's "her fellow juror" is the author of 43 short stories, but based on the actual case reported by Glaspell as her most popular short story collection, as a reporter to Des Moines Daily ing. This story was adapted from her single player drama "Trivia" in 1917, which made the feminist scholar dealt with gender related topics. On the surface, "her fellow juror" seems like a simple detective story, but through extensive dialogue between the two women, Graspel slowly reveals the real potential confrontation of the story I will. Struggle