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
“Elisa has no children and her maternal instincts are shown through growing her chrysanthemums as well as other flowers. Even with the flowers and plants it still does not fill the void she has from her husband not understanding her or showing much affection toward her. Elisa has her own soul and seems like a pretty simple person she allows what her husband says and his thoughts dominate her she use’s the chrysanthemums to fulfill what she does not get from her marriage.. Henry Allen your typical male with his thoughts and how he thinks things should be “And I thought,” he continued, “I thought how it’s Saturday afternoon, and we might go into
This description can be used to symbolize Elisa’s lonely and isolated feelings. She is 35, married without children, and the “closed pot” can be interpreted as unhappiness. Elisa is not given much of a chance to be taken seriously. An example of this is during a conversation she has with her husband Henry about her flowers, where Henry tells her “I wish you would work out in the orchards and raise some apples”. Elisa perks up for a moment and makes a suggestion that she could accomplish working out in the orchards, only to have Henry shut her down by saying “well it sure works with the flowers”.
When Henry approaches Elisa's garden and comments on her impressive crop of chrysanthemums, his business sensibilities cause him to wish out loud that Elisa would raise a cash crop of apples equally impressive. Is Henry incapable of getting his own price because he lacks skills in the ways of complicated or unpleasant discourse? Nevertheless, to "Celebrate" his sale, Henry offers to take Elisa out for dinner and a movie .His wife replies, "No, I wouldn't like fights." Interestingly, Elisa does not say the fights, which, as it is revealed later in the story, Elisa has been reading about all along. Elisa wants to know what her husband means by "Nice."
perfect life. In Elisa’s case she wanted to be loved but was not shown interest by her husband. Elisa’s was surrounded by a wire fence where she felt she could show her power inside the wire fence, but was afraid to show that power outside of the wire fence where she was fence in from the real world. Although gardening is a work of feminine mostly. Her face was lean and handsome.
Mrs. Kobylinski Essay 22 February 2015 Mathilde Compared To Della In The “Gift of the Magi” author O.Henry writes about Della a woman who sacrifices something to make her husband happy. In contrast “the Necklace” Author Guy de maurassart tells a story about Mathilde Loisel a selfish woman whose husband cared so much about her he was willing to do anything to make her happy. A similar is they both are poor and have little money. However Della tries to make the most of her money and Mathilda spends all the money they have. Della is selfless and caring about her money but Mathilda is selfish and self-centered with her money.
Recognition Ruined In The Road Henry’s wife, Elisa was intelligent and passionate about her gardening and having the well known qualities of being a woman and wife, although she lived a unsatisfying and under stimulated life, in which her husband didn’t know of. Elissa was talented and was longing for people to recognize her and what she experts in. In the story “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck Elisa doesn’t have a professional career, no children to take care of, and even though she is interested in her husband’s business on the ranch he’s is not fully conscious of that. Elisa’s wish to travel the world and to work on the farm with Henry is implied, but it is expressed to be a unfit desire for a woman. Elisa puts all her energy and time into perfecting the chrysanthemum garden and her house working skills, even though she would rather be doing more exciting things.
The Depression hit women, like other minority groups in American society, similarly harsh because of that payrolls of many communities and private companies were open only to males. The main role of women during the Great Depression was that of the homemaker. Some women had gone through college level education and, like their male counterparts, were having a difficult time of finding employment. Those with families had the task of keeping their family together, as the traditional view of motherhood role, when the principle moneymaker of the family was out of work. However, some women joined the work force and would do jobs that men previously had held.
My Analysis “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker An accomplished author, Alice Walker is well known for her literary works concerning race and gender in American culture. She is most renowned for her 1983 novel, The Color Purple for which she won the coveted Pulitzer Prize. Walker published Everyday Use in 1973, with the story first appearing in the well-known Harpers magazine. Everyday Use is about a long awaited visit from “Dee” to her Mother and Sister who live far from the city in the rural countryside of south. Dee is attractive, stylish, & well educated – with some apparently portrayed traits of selfishness, brashness and excessive confidence.
Some of them are good like Desdemona and some are corrupted like Bianca and Emilia. Desdemona is the girl who marries a man who her father does not approve. She marries an outsider even though she knows that when she does this she is going against her family and even against society. In her eyes there is nothing wrong with her marriage and she loves Othello with all of her heart. Her love is pure and sweet and nothing that happens in this play sways that love.