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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.

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

objective facts that were originally left out of the primary source documents.

an unsupportable conclusion about how men and women should judge each other.

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

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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