1: Plot and Structure: In the story “Odour of Chrysanthemums”, the protagonist Elizabeth Bates, is introduced as the mother of two children (Annie and John), and the wife of Walter Bates. While Elizabeth and her children are all waiting for Walter to come home for dinner, she becomes bitterly frustrated that her husband was going to come home late that night, drunk as he normally is. Instead, she finds out later that Walter had died in a fatal accident. With the passing of Walter, Elizabeth was able to come to her senses, realizing by looking at his pale dead body that she really did not know her husband for who he was at all. Elizabeth comes to an understanding that she was very distant from Walter, and that she had been throwing her life
