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An 8 page research paper/essay that analyzes Susan Glasgpell's major thesis in her 1916 play "Trifles," which tells how two women discern the motive and circumstances between a murder and hide evidence that would have implicated the man's wife because they can see that the woman was abused. The writer argues that Glaspell's main point is that the women constitute a jury of "peers" and have the background to judge the woman's conduct accurately while the men in the play do not. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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"A Jury of Her Peers" (Carpenter 92). The reason that Glaspell focused so much attention on this story is because it exemplifies numerous issues that relates to the marginalized role
of women, which was still substantial in American society in the first decades of the twentieth century. In regards to the suggested thesis that the women in this story did
not do enough to aid Minnie Foster Wright, the wife of the deceased man who is being held in the local jail, this writer/tutor believes that this does not express
the true point of the story. In fact, the women in the story, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, help the defendant all they possibly can, suppressing evidence that--if it came
to light and the notice of the men on the case-- would assuredly have convinced an all-male jury to find Minnie Wright guilty of murder. At this time, women
could not vote, could not sit on juries and were, legally, under the total domination of their husbands. The thesis suggested by this writer/tutor is that the title of the
short story that Glaspell later wrote, which reiterates the story of the play, explicitly states the message of this narrative. "A Jury of Her Peers" offers the suggestion that this
is precisely what happened and that justice was done. Minnie was judged not guilty by a true "jury of her peers" consisting of Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters. As pointed
out at the end of the play, male juries were always reluctant to convict a woman. The County Attorney tells the sheriff that the whole incident is "perfectly
clear except for a reason for doing it," but without that reason, without a motive, "...you know juries when it comes to women...If there were some definite thing. Something to
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