The True Story behind Trifles

Question 1

What is a key similarity or difference between these accounts?

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B: In the play, characters are sympathetic toward the jailed woman. In the article, most people are against the jailed woman.

Question 2

How does Glaspell’s purpose differ in the two accounts? In the play, she wants to

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C: explore how women respond to the suspect, while in the article she wants to show who supports the woman and who does not.

Question 3

contain(s) an objective description of the murder victim.

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B: Passage 2: “Indicted Her for Murder”

Question 4

Trifles differs from the primary source article mainly because it attempts to convey

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C: the idea that men were not generally judged by how well they treated their wives.

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