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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 man approaches Elisa. The tinker is gifted some chrysanthemum shoots and leaves. Later when driving down the road, Elisa sees her chrysanthemums destroyed on the side of the road. ‘The Chrysanthemums’ is…

she arrives at a party with her new dress and believes that all the women are gossiping about her thinking, “…oh these women, all were thinking-“What’s Mabel wearing? What a fright she looks! What a hideous new dress!” (Woolf). The main character Elisa in “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck is dealing with internal issues and issues with her husband. Between the two stories and the two main characters they are both similar, for example they both are dealing…

JingJing Zhu Dr. Terrones Expository Writing 20 7 Oct. 2015 Mona: The Simultaneous Emotions of Denial and Horror while Coping with AIDS Elisa, the psychotic and sexually promiscuous murderer of the short story written by Reinaldo Arenas, represents more than just the archetypal villain. In particular, Elisa’s transition from being a lover to a murderer is a suspenseful plot twist; however, this transition is itself a peculiar shift in direction for the story. This caricature change does…

Gender stereotyping is defined as “simplistic generalizations about the gender attributes, differences, and roles” (Fatihah 2). In The Chrysanthemums, Elisa represents the female gender. She is told that she can’t do things or won’t like things because of her gender. When Elisa is talking with the tinkerer she tells him how she wishes she could do what he does. However, the tinker responds by telling her, “It ain’t the right kind of life for a woman” (Steinbeck…

What inspires a person to write the way he or she does? Is there a relationship between a story’s text and the author? In John Steinbeck’s “The Chrysanthemums,” the main character, Elisa Allen, cherishes her chrysanthemums, yet her femininity is unnoticed. The flattery she receives from the tinker gives her hope; however, it is, specifically, false hope, in that the attention that she gains causes more frustration over how she, like other women of her time, is treated by men, including Henry,…

a mere discussion. It is something meaningful that can impact someone’s entire life, and it cannot be ignored. Conflict is difficult but it leads to growth and change, as seen in John Steinbeck’s short story, “The Chrysanthemums.” The protagonist, Elisa Allen goes through multiple internal and external conflicts that cause major change in her life. To begin, in the 1930’s discrimination was not just limited to race, men and women at this time lived extremely different lives. For example, they…

strong women named Elisa Allen and her husband Henry who live on a ranch across the Salinas River where winter has come, where the sun is blocked by a “grey-flannel fog.” At the beginning, Henry begins to negotiate a sale of thirty head of cattle, while Elisa Allen, his wife, and the main focus of the story, attends to her chrysanthemums in her garden. While handling the flowers, her husband comes back with great news: he has sold all the cattle. To celebrate, he wants to take Elisa into town…

In the short story The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck, the main character is a housewife named Elisa Allen. In the beginning of the story, Elisa is working in her flowerbed cutting Chrysanthemums. Her husband Henry is off to the side making a deal with some businessmen and when he finishes he walks over to talk to Elisa. He talks to her about her flowers and the sale he just made. He then tells her they are going to go into town to celebrate later. Henry leaves, and then an unnamed tinkerer…

frustration, and change. While Elisa Allen’s story happens on a ranch in the Salinas Valley. The Narrator from “The Yellow Wallpaper” is taken from her house to a desolated mansion in attempt to cure her “temporary nervous depression” (992). Elisa Allen is a thirty-five year old woman, who loves gardening, and rarely embraces her femininity. She is married to Henry Allen who is a business man, he is kind to her but he does not seem to truly have a connection with Elisa. The Narrator on the…

love. Likewise, Elisa receives the peddler’s attention and lets her guard down and her pride inflate. The moment the peddler takes her attention off his business and on to the chrysanthemums, “the irritation and resistance melted from Elisa’s face” (Steinbeck). Her passion causes her to ignore the obvious sales pitches the peddler throws at her: changing his stance to align with hers, commenting on his cheap but quality work, bringing up his next meal. Neither the fair wife nor Elisa recognize…