He starts talking about the flowers and how beautiful they are, and this makes Elisa feel beautiful and valued. A stranger is noticing her “place”, her hard work. When he offers to take the chrysanthemums out of the garden, off the farm, some place to grow, she is elated. “Beautiful” (690). “Oh beautiful” (690).
Elisa Allen: The Chrysanthemums Elisa Allen is a smart, attractive, and ambitious woman whose talent goes unnoticed and lives in a society that does not allow women to have professional careers in John Steinbeck’s The Chrysanthemums. Elisa longed for her husband’s approval when it came to her talent with planting flowers. She desperately wanted to work in the business of the ranch and her offers of helping her husband were brushed off. Elisa’s husband is not as smart, but he makes all of the business decisions and runs the ranch while Elisa watches from afar. Elisa is unsatisfied with life and came in contact with a man who showed up on the ranch who she found appealing to talk to and quite flirtatious which is the kind of interaction she
Kindness and gentleness are feelings of actions. Myop is kind and gentle to her animals and flowers. In the story the reader tell us how she like flowers. She goes with her family to pick flowers. flowers are gentle.
Her family is the only Korean family in Plainfield, and she doesn’t want to stand out as being “weird and Asian.” She wants to do “a nice, normal, All-American, red-white-and-blue kind of project.” Patrick knows that Julia is upset, but he doesn’t know why. Instead of telling him, she is hopeful that it will be very difficult to raise silkworms where they live, and they won’t be able to do the project. Julia continues to argue with her brother. Chapter 3-B Julia complains to Ms. Park about all the terrible things that are happening to her. Ms. Park points out that the main character has to have a problem or two, or there wouldn’t be a story.
“She whispered to herself sadly, “he might have thrown them off the road. That wouldn’t have been much trouble, not very much. But he kept the pot,” she explained. –Steinbeck Pg.168” Here the tinker has thrown out the chrysanthemums Elisa gave him therefore throwing her out as well. Only seeing them as a means to get what they need like the pot or
A vase is usually used for displaying flowers, or it can also be a decorative container. As it is used to display flowers, by containing water for the flowers to gain growth, a vase could be an image of nourishment, a source of life. Also, when it is used as a decorative container, it enhances the beauty of the house, therefore it could be representative for ornament. Through all of these images above, a vase almost could be seen as a powerful and elegant object, that deserves
To the men on the farm she is considered as a "tart", a woman trying to escape her husband. The men try to avoid her sexual powers for fear of losing their jobs; but the selfish woman cannot see that. This
He warns George and Lennie about her, despite the fact that they haven’t met her yet. This is significant as the structure of the novel means that our views are already prejudiced before we even see Curley’s wife. I think that Steinbeck has done this to show how easy it is to prejudge by listening to others, and that this might mean you don’t give people a chance-like what happens to Curley’s wife. Candy uses the word ‘tart’ to describe her and makes her sound like an object by informing George about Candy’s glove and what he uses it for. George is immediately disgusted by this ‘that’s a dirty thing to tell around’ and we can already see a negative view of Curley’s wife forming in his mind.
Precis: Zeami and His “Flower” Zeami, the founding practitioner of Japanese Noh theatre, uses images of nature as a constant metaphor. Primarily, hana, or the flower is used as an aesthetic principle and the soul of the actor or the character or the play. However, the flower also holds the larger significance of a spiritual journey and therefore every aspect of the play and performance must serve the flower in a devotional manner. Thus we can clearly see the weight of importance given to this one symbol, but why is he so interested in using it as a metaphor? Zeami is using the metaphor to imply that one must possess sophisticated or “flowery” skills to achieve anything in Noh Theatre.
Scout learned that Ms. Merriweather thinks Helen Robinson should be reprimanded because it is her skin color and her unfaithfulness to the church that caused their misfortune. The group of ladies that form the church circle should be an open-minded group, but they have only shown to be insensitive and unsympathetic. The full maturation of Scout is shown when she thinks to herself on the Radley porch, “Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shows and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.” (374).