Use Of Trope In Susan Glaspell's 'The Leap'

Trope is a figure of speech through which speakers or writers intend to express meanings of words differently than their literal meanings. In other words, it is metaphorical or figurative use of words in which writers shift from the literal meanings of words to their non-literal meanings. In James Dickeys poem “The Leap” he talks about a woman named Jane and he put her on a higher level. She was a godess and beautiful. Then in the poem she kills herself and that seems to make her just as ordinary as everyone else. “Jane, stay where you are in my first mind:” He holds her in his mind of this thought of her being perfect and not having problems, but her death, her suicide is clear proof of her flaws but to him. The man he loved her, but the feeling I thought was not the same for her, she didn’t love

Mine and your opinions can both be right and they can possibly both me wrong. Most of the time it is okay to disagree. In Susan Glaspell’s short story “Trifles” Mrs. Peter states, “But, Mrs. Hale, the law is the law.” Mrs. Hale shows anger at the men and particularly at Henderson for what she regards as the sneakiness of using Mrs. Wright's own home as evidence against her, but Mrs. Peters defends the men in her assertion that "the law is the law." With these words, Mrs. Peters reveals her sense of obligation and duty that, as Henderson later notes, derives from her marriage to Henry Peters, the sheriff. She displays nervousness at the thought of Mrs. Wright being the murderer, precisely because that causes a dissonance between her desire to help Mrs. Wright and her desire to follow the law. Ultimately, however, she rejects the assumption that her moral compass must derive solely from her husband's chosen vocation, and she decides that protecting Mrs. Wright at the expense of the law is the option that most fully preserves her personal integrity. That is her opinion verses Mrs