SWA 7

Both the play “Trifles” and the short story “A Jury of Her Peers” were enjoyable reads. However the play version was easier to discern what the characters/actors were doing in the scene and about the setting of the scene in general. The short story however made it easier to see what was being said and to what was happening. The play seems too scattered, with the reader having to pause in the middle of the speaker’s lines to discern what they’re doing while in the short story, you can read what they’re saying without having to pause and thus making it easier to follow what’s going on in the play. In terms of historical or cultural analysis, the play is easier to use in that respect. The way the women were treated by the men, along with the other items shown by the play, it can be discerned that the story takes place early in the 1900s or late 1800s. The play form is very helpful in discovering the historical and cultural aspect due to its descriptions of not only the scene, but the descriptions of the individual items in the house. With all of the info provided once can make a much more accurate analysis than one could by reading the short story which lacks the detailed summary of the house and its occupants.