Elisa notices that the canvas has sloppy writing on it stating that he mends pots and pans. He asks Elisa if she has anything that needs fixing but Elisa says no. After a few failed attempts, the tinker starts to show interest in Elisa’s flowers. This immediately changes Elisa’s mood and she is more than willing to talk to the tinker. The man tells her that he knows a woman who is looking to grow chrysanthemums and asks Elisa for some seeds to take her.
This is exemplified in the care that she shows in casual conversation with the traveling salesman. If she were to let her flowers die, she would lose a part of her marriage that she needs but cannot have. Henry Allen is an innocent rancher and the husband to Elisa. His first major scene in the story comes when he prides himself in the sale of thirty head of steers despite Elisa expressing her interest in her flowers. Henry continues with, “I wish you’d work out in the orchard and raise some apples that big” (Steinbeck 259).
Elisa kind of felt bum out while driving with Henry in to town. There she see the chrysanthemum in the road that say gave the tinker. The tinker although tossing the chrysanthemum in the road kept the pot, because he could sell it for a profit. While driving up the road with her husband she see the tinker’s wagon and turns her head as if she never saw it. That’s when Elisa’s strength began to weaken.
The author writes, “’Look, Lizzie, look, Lizzie/ Down the glen tramp little men./ One hauls a basket,/ One bears a plate,/ One lugs a golden dish/ Of many pounds’ weight.’” (Rossetti 54-59). Intrigued by these little goblins, Laura’s interest in these men overwhelms her into wanting to make contact with them and the fruits they bear. She (Laura) neglects her sister’s plea to ignore them and instead asks
So even though it is acknowledged that she is productive and dutiful she is relegated to only helping with the flower garden as her husband work with the more manly duties of rounding up the horses and selling heads of cattle to buisness men. Elsie is at her strongest when in her garden even going so far as to recieve complements about her green thumb from her husband. “You’ve got a gift with things,” Henry observed. “Some of those yellow chrysanthemums you had this year were ten inches across." ( Steinbeck 2011, p 7) and yet in the same breath she is cut down by Henry telling her she wishes she could work in an area of the farm that she is not allowed to.
"Some of those yellow chrysanthemums you had this year were ten inches across. I wish you'd work out in the orchard and raise some apples that big" (P 376). Elisa has no children has and her maternal inside are shown through growing her chrysanthemums as well as other flower. Even with the flowers and plants it still does not fill the void she has from her
She refuses to eat until she can try some of the rampion plant from the forbidden garden. Her husband worries himself sick until he finally gives in and ventures into the night in search of his wife’s rampion. The first time he is successful and his wife is absolutely thrilled. She soon begins to crave this plant more and more. Her husband is again forced to go steal some of the plant from the garden next door in order to satisfy his wife.
However, this isn’t saying that women did not participate in the yam harvest. The book mentions Okonkwo’s family working on the farm with their “hoes and machetes,” and specifically the women weeding the farm throughout the planting season (Achebe 33). The fact that harvesting the yams is a similarity between the men and women can be surprising for the reason that the yam is the king of the crops and symbolizes manliness. Another difference between the men and women is that the emotions shown by the male and female characters in the novel are completely different. First of all, men in the tribe do not show their emotions outwardly, unless it is an emotion considered masculine, such as anger.
He realizes then that the house is filled with not only religious evidence but marriage evidence. He thinks that maybe Pi’s wife had cooked the horrible spicy dishes for him, but learns later that it was in fact Pi. * Chapter 31: As Pi awaits Mr. Kumar (the Sufi) in his father’s zoo; he worries because he cannot recognize him, rubbing his eyes as an excuse for not seeing him arrive. When he does arrive, they take a walk and discuss the different animals and how they interact, especially the Zebras. The other Mr. Kumar arrives and Pi lets them both feed the Zebras with a carrot.
She was known to help stray animals and brining laughter and smiles to the villagers’ faces. One morning Crimson’s mother asked for her to go to her grandmother’s cottage just outside the village to bring her freshly made bread and a bottle of wine. But her mother warned her not to stray and go straight to her grandmothers because the village lay next to the dark woods where the wicked and mysterious lived. Those who dared to warder alone into the deep parts of the woods where never seen again, but since Crimson’s father and older brothers were woodcutters by trade, like many of men the village, they traveled into the woods on a daily bases without being threaten. Crimsons mother then told her to carry the folding knife her father gave to her for protection.