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Susan Glaspell's Mystery Character: Minnie Wright, 2007.
This paper analyzes the character of Minnie Wright, who is continuously scrutinized but never appears, in Susan Glaspell's one act play "Trifles" and the related story "A Jury of Her Peers".
2,105 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper explains that Susan Glaspell, in her play "Trifles" and novel "A Jury of Her Peers", presents the character of Minnie Wright through the many "trifles", or small clues, recognized by the two women---Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters---who accompany the official murder investigation team. The author points out that this device of the "unseen woman", also used by Edgar Allen Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle, draws attention to the marginalization of women who are unseen by men in a patriarchal society. The paper stresses that because they dismissed the importance of "trifles", the investigators could not solve the mystery of who Minnie Wright was and why she would murder her husband.
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"Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale allow us to see Minnie without actually seeing her. Both women share a significant number of life experiences and similar life responsibilities with Minnie. As such, they can see many small things that are nevertheless significant. These insignificant "trifles" include the half-sifted flour (or laid out bread), the preserves, the poorly sewn quilting patch, and the dead canary. One of the trifles noticed by the women but overlooked by the men was that of the flour / bread. Mustazza points out that this scene contains one of the subtle differences in scene between "Trifles" and "A Jury of Her Peers"."
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Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers", 2008.
Looks at the theme of women's social-cultural position in Susan Glaspell's short story "A Jury of Her Peers".
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This paper relates that Susan Glaspell, in "A Jury of Her Peers", demonstrates the injustice of male superiority during the early 20th century, when the story was written. The paper describes the way the men misjudge the intelligence and instincts of the women in the story, thus portraying the men as overpowering, ignorant and foolish. The paper further explains that the plot shows indirectly the men's disrespect to the women by making a mockery of all the kitchen items and anything relating to victim Minnie's domestic duties. The author concludes that the unity of the three women strengthens Glaspell's point of making the superiority of men unjust.
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"Glaspell describes Minnie's life as extremely lonesome which allows the reader to sympathize with Minnie; once again making men like John Wright look harsh and inappropriate. For example, her house is described with words of abandonment and depression: "Maybe because it's a down in a hollow and you don't see the road. I don't know, but it's a lonesome place and always way." In addition to living in such a miserable environment, Minnie did not have any kids. Once again, the reader and both the women sympathize with Minnie."
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Play: Susan Glaspell's "Trifles", 2008.
Examines the background, the plot and the critical views of Susan Glaspell's play "Trifles".
1,325 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper relates that Susan Glaspell, a reporter, based her one-act play "Trifles" on events that actually happened in Iowa near the turn of the 20th century, which she covered. The author points out that the plot of the play is as if Glaspell didn't like the outcome of the real-life situation and then got to craft her own ending. The paper relates that the themes in "Trifles"are gender relationships, the tug-of-war battles between the sexes, women's perceptive intuition vs. men's bullishness, male chauvinism and the good-old-boy network of criminal justice
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"After leaving newspaper work, her writing was strictly fictional; until that is her husband, George Cram Cook (a classics scholar with whom she had been involved during his second marriage in a long affair) urged her to write a play. "Glaspell may have been trying to buoy up Cook's artistic reputation by making him out to be the party responsible" for her literary success, something he, Cook, had never achieved. Meanwhile, even though Glaspell herself carried on an affair with a married man, thus hurting another woman, she painted men in "Trifles" as the bad guys."
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?A Jury of Her Peers? by Susan Glaspell, 2006.
This paper reviews the book "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell, while exploring the sisterhood formed by sharing simple homemaking tasks and a certain death.
788 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 28.95
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The writer of this paper explains that in Susan Glaspell's short story all women go through the same thing, just a little differently. This paper explains the significance of the story taking place in the kitchen, for it reflects the women's pride and hard work. The writer gives a clear description of the mood expressed in the book as well as exploring the relationship between men and women in a patriarchal society.
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"The bird and the bird cage are significant to the life that Minnie had been living, caged like an animal, isolated from the world. The isolation could make anyone a little crazy. The women noticed the broken door on the cage and Mrs. Hale remarked, "Looks as if someone must have been rough with it," suggesting Minnie's life of abuse. The bird is a crucial detail in this story for it symbolizes everything what Minnie was when she was younger, beautiful full of life and singing in the choir. The bird being found in a pretty box wrapped up in silk let the readers know along with Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters that this bird was something precious to Minnie. Seeing the bird's neck wrung symbolized how Mr. Wright was killed with a rope around his neck having the life chocked out of him like he did to Minnie.
The quilt is brought to our attention to explain to the readers that quilting is a hobby that is done in groups as a social event. The women guessed that because Minnie was isolated and had no social contact, she would knot the quilt."
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Themes in Susan Glaspell's Work, 2007.
An analysis of the themes found in "A Jury of Her Peers," "The Last Sixty Minutes" and "The Plea" by Susan Glaspell.
1,429 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper discusses three short stories of Susan Glaspell - "A Jury of Her Peers," "The Last Sixty Minutes" and "The Plea." It analyzes the theme found in these stories which revolves around morality and moral decisions. The paper describes how each character in the stories makes an extremely personal decision somewhere in the tale - a decision that will alter their lives.
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"In conclusion, all of these stories seem deceptively simple at first reading. The plots are simple - it is the complex characters who give the stories meaning and a strong sense of morality and right from wrong. Each of these stories poses a moral dilemma and then solves it satisfactorily for the reader. Glaspell's work is more complicated than it might appear. Her situations are complex, and so are her character's reactions to them. Plotting might not be her strong point, but characterization and theme certainly are, and these stories all illustrate that quite well."
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Susan Glaspell's "Trifles": Suspect or Victim?, 2001.
This essay analyzes feminist Susan Glaspell's "Trifles", a murder and investigation story.
752 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This critical paper explores Susan Glaspell's first drama, "Trifles", a murder and investigation story. Within the plot lies the undertone of sexual discrimination and the effects it had upon women. Although murder is not a justifiable action, no matter what the offense may be, "Trifles" generates sympathy towards the murderer for what she has been through and makes the reader feel less like she was the suspect and more like she was the victim.
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"Susan Glaspell's first drama, Trifles, was written on one afternoon in 1916 as Glaspell sat in an empty theater staring at an empty stage. Based on her memories of a murder trial she covered in earlier days as a reporter, Trifles is a story of murder, evidence, and justice. However, underneath the outer facts, emotions, oppressions, and motives are exposed. Two of the major themes developed in the plot of Trifles are the physical and psychological oppressions suffered by the women of the early 1900s and the significance of a male-dominated civilization. Trifles gives the reader a perfect example of how the suspect of a story can evolve into a victim as the plot develops and the inner emotions are revealed."
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Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers", 2000.
An examination of the feminine sense of self and the female myth in Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers".
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This paper examines the myths about women by men in a patriarchal society as portrayed in Glaspell's short story, "A Jury of Her Peers".
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"Glaspell demonstrates how the cultural norms and myths about women in "A Jury of Her Peers" affect the women characters? sense of self by creating an incident where the women are forced to reckon with the myths that have been created about them in their patriarchal society, and to come to terms with the reality of their feminine self-definition. Through the unfolding of events in the story, we readers see the women characters? sense of self evolve. Their realization is important not only to the outcome of the story, but also, to the women readers who may see themselves in the roles of those characters. "A Jury of Her Peers? supports this thesis. "
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A Feminist Look at Susan Glaspell's Play "Trifles", 2000.
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This paper looks how Susan Glaspell's play "Trifles" uses many ideas found in feminist criticism and explores the three main tools Susan Glaspell uses in driving her point home: the experience of the woman, the traditional roles of men and women, and the use of binary oppositions.
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"One idea of feminist criticism is that literature is based on womens? experience, and ?it is specifically the connective, the accumulative details of experience, that provide the structural key for the comprehension of this story (Alkalay-Gut 1).? Upon entering her home, Mrs. Hale notices that Mrs. Wright left certain things undone, such as dirty dishes in the sink, the half-wiped table, and the half-poured sugar. Being a farmer?s wife herself she understands this, and defends Mrs. Wright when the men criticize her untidiness by replying, ?There?s a great deal of work to be done on a farm (Glaspell, 401).? She understands what it?s like to have a million things to do and not enough time to do them. Women often make the job look so easy that men like these believe there isn?t much to it. She also knows that these men do not appreciate the effort put forth to manage a household, but more importantly she speaks her mind, asserting her views firmly."
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Susan Glaspell's "Trifles", 2002.
A discussion of the 1916 one-act play in terms of gender relationships.
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Discusses the 1916 one-act play in terms of gender relationships. Characters, plot, setting, dramatic conflict. Different meaning of common household "trifles" to the male and female characters as a key to the play's resolution. Different ways of seeing and interpreting of male and female characters. Theme of traditional rules of society vs. justice.
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" Susan Glaspell' s classic 1916 one-act play "Trifles" is a character driven drama that pits the wits and empathy of female characters against the blinding arrogance of the malecharacters. Set in a bleak, Midwestern farming community, the plot centers around a murder investigation. Minnie Wright has been arrested by the sheriff for the murder of her husband John after saying that she just woke up in bed beside the body of her rope-strangled husband. What the sheriff needs is proof of Mrs. Wright's guilt in the form of motivation and evidence. The
dramatic conflict of the play is the search for evidence and how that evidence is interpreted. The setting of the play is the gloomy kitchen of the Wright's farmhouse."
The play's five onstage characters include the County
Attorney George Henderson, Sheriff Henry Peters, his wife Mrs.
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"A Jury of her Peers" by Susan Glaspell, 2002.
A look at American society through its law.
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This paper suggests that the story "A Jury of her Peers" is one that shows the generalization present in the society of the early twentieth century and provides two perspectives of law.
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"The Big Bow Mystery" - A Locked Room Puzzle., 2002.
An analysis of Israel Zangwill's mystery novel "The Big Bow Mystery".
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This paper dissects Israel Zangwill's mystery novel The Big Bow Mystery and analyzes it in terms of other mystery-novel standards: logical consistency, character evenness, and distraction (e.g. "red herrings"). It concludes that although the novel also functions as a critique of Victorian society, the novel itself has great worth as a mystery due to its supreme internal consistency, hard to achieve in the "locked room" subgenre.
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"Pride and Prejudice": A Mystery Novel, 1996.
An analysis of the element of mystery in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice".
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This paper reviews Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice" with an emphasis on how the element of mystery in it serves to give depth and development to the characters. It examines how the related mysteries of "Pride and Prejudice" are the Wickham-Darcy relationship and the "mystery of character." It is no mystery from the beginning that Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy are fated to be together, the mystery is their feelings and motivations and their characters, as they evolve and are revealed throughout the novel. It shows how, like many a mystery novelist, Austen leaves ample clues from which the reader could discern that all is not what it seems, which seem obvious only on a second reading.
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"There are two central and intertwined mysteries in the novel: the traditional mystery of Wickham?s relationship to Darcy, and the more subtle mystery of Darcy?s (and Elizabeth?s) true character. The author?s treatment of the Wickham mystery is not that of the conventional mystery story, as a modern reader might understand it. The clues Austen gives are not material to the direct verification of one side?s or the other?s story, but to the respectability and trustworthiness of Wickham and Darcy. We are not given, for example, accounts of Wickham?s behavior in London while he is pretending to study law. It is only through an understanding of the two men?s characters that we discover the truth of their relationship."
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Glaspell?s ?Jury? Trifles, 2000.
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This paper addresses the themes of Susan Glaspell?s short story adaptation ?A Jury of her Peers? from her play "Trifles". It deals with the cultural and sociological motivations of a group of women to cover up the murder of one of their husbands- and that sets an example of feminist writing in the early 20th century.
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"Susan Glaspell seriously challenges the common conception of weak and stupid females through the characters of her literary and dramatic works, Trifles and ? A Jury of Her Peers?. She attacks the conventions of marriage, the ignorance of spousal abuse, and the general mistreatment of women within her society-which unfortunately, still continues today. The play Trifles and its literary adaptation ?A Jury of Her Peers? by Glaspell is an expression of the dissatisfaction of females? roles and treatment in the society of the early twentieth-century in the United States. The suffocating oppression of Minnie Foster leads to the asphyxiation death of her unfeeling husband and their loveless marriage."
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?The Mystery of Edwin Drood?, 2002.
Discusses the mystery element in Charles Dickens' novel.
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One of the mysteries of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" is the question that lies at the heart of all mysteries ? Whodunnit? But there is another, at least as compelling question at the heart of this mystery, which is: How did author Charles Dickens intend for this novel to end? And, why does this unfinished novel read so very much like a finished novel? The paper shows that despite the fact that the story is often performed by theater companies that allow the audience to guess what the intended ending might have been ? thus emphasizing the unfinished nature of the book ? the novel itself seems oddly complete. This paper proposes one possible solution to the unfinished novel ? one that is consonant with the tone and intent of what Dickens himself wrote.
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"This improvised ending takes up where Dickens laid down his pen and assumes ? as do many of the proposed endings to this novel ? that Edwin is not really dead. To understand why this is the logical solution, we must go back in time to John Jasper?s Christmas Eve party. During this party, Neville finds his antagonism toward Edwin diminishing because of Edwin?s own friendliness and disarming openness to Neville. They are also drawn together by the fact that each of them believes that there is something peculiar about Jasper: Their increasing distrust of him draws the two of them together."
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Mystery Literature, 2004.
This paper reviews two children?s mysteries: ?The Shore Road Mystery? from Franklin W. Dixon's Hardy Boys series and ?Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Sleeping Dog? from Donald J. Sobol's Encyclopedia Brown series.
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This paper explains that the Hardy Boys, in 1964, in ?The Shore Road Mystery" are mere boys who can think like crafty adults, can go out and challenge crooks and thieves, and find a farmhouse to call for help with just old-fashioned land-based phones. The author points out that a young man learns that hard work and perseverance plus brainpower and the use of good instincts lead to success, even for kids. The paper relates that ?Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Sleeping Dog? leaves the reader wondering how a seemingly normal kid named Encyclopedia Brown could come up with this kind of skullduggery and carry it off.
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"The irony here is that Chet is on a research mission seeking information about car thieves, a felony crime that any kid could think about, but few could actually follow through. Still, he can?t keep his hands out of the cake Aunt Gertrude gave him to deliver. A reader learns here that young men are always young men in most predictable respects (in this case, Chet is tempted by chocolate cake, and can?t keep his hands off the cake notwithstanding the promise to deliver it); but in other areas, Chet is acting more like being a criminal investigator than a green-behind-the-ears / snot-nosed kid who can?t keep his fingers out of a chocolate cake."
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