Short Story: A Jury of Her Peers / Trifles

English Literature V

In this post, I’ll be musing about some key themes and ideas present in Susan Glaspell’s A Jury of Her Peers.

The men fail at their task to find the motive for the crime because they are trying too hard. Their very striving to find evidence gets in the way of finding it. For the same reason that Aylmer faltered in The Birthmark, the men here are too mu…