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Susan Glaspell’s short story “A Jury of Her Peers� is more effective than her play Trifles at depicting the marginalization of women. Given only the text of the stories, and not taking into consideration the acting in the play, “Jury� far surpasses Trifles in conveying how women were basically disregarded as having any insight into “manly� matters such as a murder investigation. Trifles was written in 1916 and “Jury� was written in 1917. During this time period women were thought to be lower than men and unable to comprehend matters that were more important. The roles of women as “workers� were downgraded extensively, never taking into account just how hard the work is doing all of the household chores everyday, and preparing and planning for the future.
In the first paragraph of “Jury� Glaspell sets up a later scene in the story, while in Trifles it is left to ones imagination and maybe intuition, to discern the meaning. In “Jury,� Glaspell,......

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