Susan Glaspell wrote two different forms of literature that have basically the same plot, setting, and characters. This was at a time when the legal system was not very sensitive to the social and domestic situation of married women. She first wrote the dramatic version "Trifles" in 1916, then the prose fiction version "A Jury of Her Peers" in 1917. The main difference was in the way the prose fiction version was presented. Glaspell causes an emotional shift in the story with descriptive passages, settings, and the title. The prose fiction version has a greater degree of emotional penetration than the dramatic version. Although the dialogue remained basically unchanged from the drama version to the prose fiction version, Glaspell conveyed his message more effectively in the narrative. While Glaspell uses the characters or actors to express the emotions of the story of the play "Trifles", she makes the reader feel the emotions of "A Jury of Her Peers" by including descriptive passages to accompany the dialogue in its narration. The first paragraph of the story was a description of Mrs. Hale's neglected kitchen "...which would later serve as a point of comparison with the major scene of the story, Mrs. Wright's kitchen" (Mustazza). This opening description helps readers predict why Mrs. Hale might easily identify with Mrs. Wright. “Through her brief opening description of the landscape, Glaspell establishes the physical context of loneliness and isolation, an isolation that Minnie inherited and shared with generations of pioneers and homesteaders before her” (Hedges). The description of the road leading to Mr. Wright's farm also helps reveal to readers Mrs. Wright's "geographic isolation" (Hedges). Glaspell provides the news in middle of paper ....... April 25, 2011. Mustazza, Leonard. "Generic Translation and Thematic Shift in Susan Glaspell's 'Bagatelles' and 'A Jury of Her Peers'." Studies in Short Fiction 26.4 (Fall 1989): 489-496. Rep. in News Criticism. Ed. Jenny Cromie. Flight. 41. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. Gale Library Resources. Internet. March 29, 2011. Orit, Kamir. “Killing a songbird: a community of women, feminist jurisprudence, conscientious objection and a revolution in a jury of peers and contemporary cinema” Law and Literature Vol. 19, no. 3 (fall 2007) (p. 357-376). Print.Wright, Janet Stobbs. “Law, Justice, and Female Vengeance in “Kerfol,” by Edith Wharton, and Trifles and “A Jury of Her Peers,” by Susan Glaspell.” Atlantis 24.1 (June 2002): 299-302. Rep. in News Criticism. Ed. Jelena O. Krstovic. Flight. 132. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Gale Library Resources. Internet. March 29. 2011.