Susan GlaspellTrifles Susan Glaspell wrote many literary pieces in the early 1900s. Two, in particular, have a very similar theme, namely the play Trifles and the short story “ A Jury of Her Peers”. The Trifles was written in 1920 and "A Jury of Her Peers" was written in 1921, a short story, adapted from the play. Susan Glaspell was born in Davenport, IA on July 1, 1876 as the middle child and only daughter. In college, he wrote for his school newspaper, The Drake, and after graduating from Glaspell, he began working for the Des Moines News. The idea for the comedy and the story came to her after reporting on the murder of a woman on a farm. In both Glaspell pieces, the protagonist, Mrs. Wright, is accused of killing her husband. Minnie Wright was a farmer's wife who didn't have much contact with the outside world. The murder investigation took place inside his home. Three men are used to investigate the case and two women come with them. The women were no help to the men, but they solved the case but also protected Mrs. Wright from any wrongdoing. The three men tried to find a motive, but the case remained unsolved. Susan Glaspell shows in the two pieces how women are ignored in investigative matters. In speaking to women, Henderson and other men make the fundamental mistake that women derive their identity from their relationships with men. For example, Henderson tells Mrs. Peters that just because she is married to the sheriff, she is also married to the law, so she is reliable in obeying the law. Mrs. Peters suggests that along the way she has discovered a different aspect of herself that is more closely tied to her experience as a woman than to her marriage to Mr. Peters. Mrs. Hale concludes that all women cross… the middle of the paper and, themselves, see that Mrs. Wright deserves their protection, which has different meanings for the women. They join her against the law; they also protect her by not telling her the truth about her ruined reserves. Mrs. Hale regrets not protecting Minnie Wright from isolation and loneliness, and she rushes to her defense and protects Minnie Wright first by helping her now. Women's empowerment is the main factor in the two pieces written by Susan Glaspell. The male investigators couldn't figure out what might have happened, but when the women try to put all the pieces together, they are sidelined and insubstantial. Glaspell shows how the women acted as if they were detectives, much more than the men helping to solve the case, showing that they were just as valuable as the men, and in fact much more..