Gurpreet Gidha
Interpretative Response #1
September 14, 2015
The Symbol of Chrysanthemum’s In “The Chrysanthemum’s” the short story by John Steinbeck, we follow the relationship of Elisa and the chrysanthemums throughout the story. We learn the value these flowers have to Elisa and how the theme of inequality of gender ties into with the main symbol. As describe by Joseph Kelly, “a literal symbol us an object with symbolic meaning limited to the very narrow context of a particular work of literature” (12). In this short story the chrysanthemums or flowers represent care, love, and strength but outside of the story the symbol can represent another meaning. The chrysanthemums definitely play a literally symbol in this particularly setting and …show more content…
Her true feelings seem to go unnoticed. She’s intelligent and has a business side for the farm that will go unnoticed by her husband. For example, “Henry put on his joking tone. “There’s fights tonight. How’d you like to go to the fight?” (440). In a way he’s questioning her women hood and inferring women are weak and not strong to handle those things. Elisa is strong and what makes her stand apart from other women in her time. Since she has no children she devotes all her time into planting. The chrysanthemums in the story represent Elisa and her scope of life. The chrysanthemums represent Elisa because they are lovely, strong, and thriving just like her. The amount of time she puts into the flowers shows how caring and passionate she is. The flowers to her are the place where she feels strong and get way since her husband seems to not appreciate her. She becomes one with her plants when she tends them. For example, “I’ve a gift with things, all right. My mother had it. She could stick anything in the ground and make it grow. She said it was having planters’ hands that knew how to do it” (439), she felt proud and even bragged in a way. The chrysanthemums gave her this strength. Gardening is the one place where she express herself and …show more content…
It features the relationship between her and the chrysanthemums and shows how she’s intelligent, strong, caring, loving, and thriving. Even when she’s ignored and treated unequally it’s the one place she is strong. Over all the theme of gender inequality ties in with that symbol in the story because it shows women are unimportant and only add a little value in this world in our
Interpretative Response #1
September 14, 2015
The Symbol of Chrysanthemum’s In “The Chrysanthemum’s” the short story by John Steinbeck, we follow the relationship of Elisa and the chrysanthemums throughout the story. We learn the value these flowers have to Elisa and how the theme of inequality of gender ties into with the main symbol. As describe by Joseph Kelly, “a literal symbol us an object with symbolic meaning limited to the very narrow context of a particular work of literature” (12). In this short story the chrysanthemums or flowers represent care, love, and strength but outside of the story the symbol can represent another meaning. The chrysanthemums definitely play a literally symbol in this particularly setting and …show more content…
Her true feelings seem to go unnoticed. She’s intelligent and has a business side for the farm that will go unnoticed by her husband. For example, “Henry put on his joking tone. “There’s fights tonight. How’d you like to go to the fight?” (440). In a way he’s questioning her women hood and inferring women are weak and not strong to handle those things. Elisa is strong and what makes her stand apart from other women in her time. Since she has no children she devotes all her time into planting. The chrysanthemums in the story represent Elisa and her scope of life. The chrysanthemums represent Elisa because they are lovely, strong, and thriving just like her. The amount of time she puts into the flowers shows how caring and passionate she is. The flowers to her are the place where she feels strong and get way since her husband seems to not appreciate her. She becomes one with her plants when she tends them. For example, “I’ve a gift with things, all right. My mother had it. She could stick anything in the ground and make it grow. She said it was having planters’ hands that knew how to do it” (439), she felt proud and even bragged in a way. The chrysanthemums gave her this strength. Gardening is the one place where she express herself and …show more content…
It features the relationship between her and the chrysanthemums and shows how she’s intelligent, strong, caring, loving, and thriving. Even when she’s ignored and treated unequally it’s the one place she is strong. Over all the theme of gender inequality ties in with that symbol in the story because it shows women are unimportant and only add a little value in this world in our