The True Story behind Trifles Answers

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What is a key similarity or difference between these accounts?

Both accounts provide evidence that the woman feels uncomfortable in jail and misses domestic items from her home.

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

In the play, the jailed woman is concerned about domestic matters. In the article, the woman worries her family’s opinions.

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

create doubts about the suspect, while in the article she wants to report only the facts.

create full, well-rounded characters, while in the article she creates simple characters.

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

show the suspect as being concerned with trivialities, but in the article she wants to show the suspect as focusing on the big picture.

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

Passage 1: Trifles

Passage 2: “Indicted Her for Murder”

Both passages

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