Feminism in Trifles and a Jury of Her Peers Being a strong feminist, Susan Glaspell wrote "Trifles" and then translated it into a story called "A Jury of Her". Her colleagues." These works express Glaspell's view of the way women were treated at the turn of the century. Although Glaspell is an acclaimed feminist, her story does not contain traditional feminist views of equal rights for both the sexes. The story and the play written by Susan Glaspell are very similar. The story is set in an old country town in the early 1900s upstairs in the Wright house with Minnie Wright, John's wife, sitting quietly downstairs. With John Wright dead and his wife in prison, Mr. Hale, the sheriff, their wives and the county attorney all crowded into the house. Wright's house to try to find clues to the murder. As the men go up the stairs, they leave the women below “…worrying about trifles.” (“A Jury of Her Peers” 264) Unbeknownst to the men, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters find clue after clue that could convict Minnie Wright of the murder. Instead of telling the men the clues, the women hide them and the men have no idea what the women found. The clues are little things like a half-cleaned kitchen, messed up sewing, and the sugar jar left open. The clues that women find are very obvious to them, but a man would look into them without thinking twice. Feminists do not usually vary in the opinions they hold. The feminist wants equal rights for both sexes and wants all women to be treated exactly like men. The story and the play suggest something different. There are many examples in the story that suggest that Susan Gla... center of paper... Works CitedBanner, Lois. Women in Modern America: A Brief History. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1974.Glaspell, Susan. Trifles. Making Literature Matter: An Anthology for Readers and Writers. Ed. John Schilb and John Clifford. Boston: Bedford / St. Martin's, 2000. 127-137. Glaspell, Susan. "Trifles." Comedies by Susan Glaspell. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc., 1920. Reprinted in Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry and Drama. XJ Kennedy and Dana Gioia Eds. New York: Harper Collins Publisher, 1995. Glaspell, Susan. "A jury of his peers." Literature and the writing process. Eds. Elizabeth McMahan, Susan X. Day and Robert Funk. 4th edition. Upper Saddle River: Prentice, 1996. 293-307.Hewitt, Nancy. “Beyond the Search for Sisterhood: The Story of American Women in the 1980s.” Social history. vol. 10: No. 3 (1985): 299-321