A Jury of Her Peers (1927), a short story written by Susan Glaspell. A Jury of Her Peers tells the tale of a murder mystery of a farmer named John Wright who is killed in his sleep while his wife Minnie Wright the prime suspect is sound asleep lying next to him. Mr. Peters, the county sheriff and attorney become suspicious during the investigation to know that the Mrs. Wright does not have any answers to who killed her husband. The sheriff’s wife Mrs. Peters is there along with friends of the Wright’s, Mr. and Mrs. Hale who are there giving a statement during the investigation. The two women are also suspicious that Minnie committed the murder but are reluctant to present evidence that could insinuate Minnie’s guilt.
Many times during the novel Of Mice and Men Steinbeck creates contradiction: Curley’s wife’s red wardrobe compared to the brown, mucky, ranch. Even George and tall Lennie are conflicting themes in the novel. These are only two small examples, looking deeper in the novel one finds the importance in Curley’s Wife’s death. The passage describing Curley’s wife’s death is the most emotionally wrenching for the reader in the novel. Steinbeck elicits contradictory feelings in the reader: sympathy for the recently murdered woman as well as sympathy for his murderer.
The women use their emotions in order to figure out that Mrs. Wright did commit the murder. By the end of the play they decide to protect her because they seemed to relate to the abuse she endured in the household. The murder was justifiable because during this time period there was no such thing as divorce. Mrs. Wright was dying slowly because of her husband, and the only way to escape was to kill him the same way he killed her bird through strangulation. Mrs. Wright’s situation is comparable to a prisoner who is condemned to incarceration for life with no parole when they have never committed a crime.
The greatest act of failed responsibility in the novel, Curley’s neglect towards his wife, was a continuing plot line through the book. It finally comes to an end when the lonely woman is accidentally killed when she comes to Lennie looking for companionship. To emphasize Curley’s irresponsibility, he immediately decides to lead a manhunt for Lennie before knowing all the facts about his wife’s murder. Lennie was completely at fault for the murder, though; as another example of irresponsibility in the book, he chose to run away instead of staying with Curley’s wife’s body to claim responsibility for what he had done. Not every character in the novel is irresponsible however, as show by both Slim and George.
Nonetheless, the sheriff’s wife and the neighbor’s wife who come to the house to take in some stuffs for Mrs. Wright have found out the motive and the real murderer. The play "As the Crow Flies" by David Henry Hwang is like a tragedy within a comedy. The playwright uses humor throughout the play to hide the serious theme of the story. Chan, P.K., and Hannah are the people who have been left alone from the world. The author describes the differences in their thinking which is caused by the difference in cultures.
Does this work? Tony’s wife Margot is the one that is planed to get murdered, by C.A. Swan also known as Lesgate. Nobody believes Margot, that she isn’t the bad guy that she is the victim, right up until the key doesn’t fit. Frederick Knott is the author of “Dial M for Murder.” In this play there were several reasons why Tony’s plan to murder his wife did not work out.
Smith wants to amend Hickock's confession to state that he, Smith, killed all four Clutters. His reason for this, he claims, is to give Hickock's mother peace of mind. Dewey refuses this request. Smith and Hickock continue their mutual love-hate relationship, wherein each annoys and disgusts the other, but they are tied by this act of murder and their own insecurities. Dr. Jones, a court-appointed psychiatrist, asks the two to write their life histories.
We, the audience, know that the women in the story have found evidence that would place the murder of Mr. Wright on Mrs. Wright, but the men in the story never find the evidence because of the little value they put on the trifles in the story. Mrs. Hale’s closing speech is another vivid example of Glaspell’s use of irony. Her dramatic pause before she responds, “We call it-knot it” (671) to Mr. Henderson’s question, regarding the type of stitching used on the quilt, is very meaningful at this point because Mrs. Hale has assigned the guilt of the murder to Mrs. Wright. Nevrtheless, her pause and refusal to reveal her evidence of the strangled bird shows that she does not hold Mrs. Wright
Noone seems to have the real cause of it, they just assume she’s going to kill herself and they wanted her to. They say she lost her ways and that her like a man that wasn’t up to people-with-money standards. In the end she doesn’t use the poison for herself………….. When Miss Emily dies the women are not mournful but curious to go into her house and scope around. The men seem to pay their respects.
Plot Development in Trifles Susan Glaspell’s Trifles can be described as a short play about the small things that women notice. In Trifles, two women discuss how one of their friends could have possibly murdered her husband. While they talk about it, they begin to find clues as to why she either killed him or was really upset about something her husband did that made her kill him. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, the wives of the sheriff and Mr. Hale, a prominent man of the town, discover three slight clues to the murder of Mr. Wright: a quilt piece, a bird cage, and a dead canary. The discovery of the quilt pieces shows us that something was wrong with Mrs. Wright.