Trifles A Jury Of Her Peers And Susan Glaspell's Tri

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In the short story “A Jury of Her Peers” and the play “Trifles” the same story is use, but both the stories have different points of views. But not are only the points of views different but the way the entire story is set up. In “A Jury of Her Peers” , a short story, the author Susan Glaspell goes into great detail about the events leading up to the the meeting at the house. While in the play “Trifles” Susan Glaspell doesn’t give any background knowledge she just throws into the story. While both “ A Jury of Her Peers” and “Trifles” are both similar in plot but different in points of view and amount of content.
To begin, the most obvious difference between the two text are the points of view. Also the setting of the story and how much insight

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