Chrysanthemum

Women throughout their lives have faced adversity, whether is getting the same pay, the same job, something has always held them back from achieving greatness. In the short story’s ”The Chrysanthemums” and “Barren Woman”, the authors uses imagery and symbolism to depict and to help you understand the repressed feminine qualities of the protagonist, a vibrant person who is not taken seriously because of her gender. During this time, gender inequality was at any all-time high and women weren’t…

John Steinbeck’s short story, “The Chrysanthemums,” is an illustration of a married woman’s frustration with the limitations imposed upon her by society. As Steinbeck’s character, Elisa Allen, tends her garden and interacts with the male characters in the story her annoyance and emotions from living in a male dominated world are revealed. Throughout the story Steinbeck relays the main characters feelings of isolation, dissatisfaction and oppression by her environment. Steinbeck conveys the…

“The Chrysanthemums” Reading the short story “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck made me realized that society as a whole has not changed when it comes to the equality between men and women. Even though, today women are allowed to perform many tasks and activities that were in the past only performed by men; men are still given authorities over females. This short story is about a woman named Elisa, who was not valued by her husband because she was a female. She was treated more like a child…

In The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, Ruth Benedict paints a vivid picture of the Japanese thought process and their pattern of behavior. At a time when the United States was grappling with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the author was commissioned by the war department to conduct a study on the Japanese society and culture so as to familiarize the military with its enemy. However, unable to carry out her ethnography project using field work, Benedict uses “culture at a distance”, a sort of…

As the short story progresses we see a reoccurring imagery of sunshine that seems to highlight Elisa mentally and physically. In the article, Timmerman states, “Organizational and Gendered Imagery in John Steinbeck's ‘The Chrysanthemums.’”, the author explains how organizational imager occurs in two different moments of the story, as he writes, “The color yellow used throughout the paragraph accentuates the illusion of sunshine… It remains an illusionary world wrapped in fog” (Timmerman, 32).…

In the stories “The Story of an Hour” and “The Chrysanthemums”, the main protagonists from each story has an epiphany or a realization in their lives and relationships. The characters are both in relationships that they subtly hint throughout the story that they are not happy in. While both end in depressing fashion, each character also finishes their respective story dramatically different. In each story, both characters react to the events that cause the epiphany in similar ways, such as how…

John Steinbeck’s story, “The Chrysanthemums” opens with a description of the setting. The first setting is on a farm in the Salinas Valley, in California. The main character of the story is Elisa Allen. She is unhappy, and discontent with her life. She is married to Henry Allen. They have no children. She feels as though Henry sees her as more of a masculine woman. Elisa turns to her garden to mask her true feelings. While gardening one day, a stranger stops by their farm. This stranger cons,…

few, but in ‘The Chrysanthemums’ by John Steinbeck, this ideal is presented to an extreme. Steinbeck begins the story by painting a descriptive picture of the Salinas Valley and describes it as “a time of quiet and waiting”. The story then introduces us to two of the main characters, Elisa and her husband, whose first interaction can best be described as awkward and curt . When her husband leaves, a tinker drives up to Elisas’ estate. While she is working away on her chrysanthemum garden, the…

“The Chrysanthemums,” establishes an explicitly ironic and dismal tone towards female empowerment in society through the contradictory characterization of Elisa and her duality as both a strong, independent woman, and a wife who is constantly being socially oppressed by the world around her. Steinbeck reinforces this idea through constant, selective detailing of the environment surrounding Elisa, and the inclusion of symbolic visual imagery throughout the text. Throughout “The Chrysanthemums,”…

Chrysanthemum belliam The Chrysanthemum belliam is an organism that belongs to the Domain Eukarya and Plantae Kingdom. Chrysanthemum are flowering plants native of northern eastern Europe and East Asia. However, this particular species of Chrysanthemum, belliam, was recently discovered in the western part of Africa, around the Gold Coast. The coastal climate of this region in Africa has produced an abundance of Chrysanthemum belliam, so lets take an indepth look at this beautiful unique…