On every side it sat like a lid on the mountains and made of the great valley a closed pot.’’ To me Elissa’s life is this closed pot and she works in even more limited confines. The house she shares with Henry is enclosed ''with red geraniums close-banked around it as high as the windows,’’ and the garden where she grows her flowers is surrounded by a wire fence. From the inside of her deepest enclosure Elissa watched life come and go. This comes in many forms as she still tends to her garden from inside the fence, the cattle buyers, Henry and Scotty on their horses, and the tinker in his wagon drawn by a horse and a donkey. Elisa shows no ill feelings toward staying in her element while the farm life buzzes around her.
“The Chrysanthemums” One of the most accomplished short story “The Chrysanthemums by Steinbeck’s johns.” This short story shows that there is no place for intelligent woman. Elisa is very smart, attractive, ambitious, and creative but all these qualities go wasted. Elise husband is not smart as her but he is the one who run the farm to support himself and his wife. In early 1900’s most of the married couple description was the husband goes outside to work and make money to support the family and wife would stay home and take care of the house and children. Since Hanry and Elisa do not have kids that why Elisa just take care of the house.
Mattie was left to help her father with farm work and other chores around the house, including taking care of her three younger sisters. Also after needing money, her father sent her to work at a hotel,
Even n her childhood, it is clear that Clara would be different from the rest of the characters, as it is stated that “Clara lived in a universe of her own invention, protected from life's inclement weather, where the prosaic truth of material objects mingled with the tumultuous reality of dreams and the laws of physics and logic did not always apply.” This is apparent throughout the text as she frequently isolates herself to the spiritual world, disregarding all of her earthly worries. Thus, she may be compared to a cloud, off in her own world in the sky. Her separation from the physical world is another definitive portion of Clara’s character, much to the
In “Maggie,” we see internal and external constraints on self-making. More importantly, the external factors that are in play before the character is even aware that they are holding them back. Maggie is, first and foremost, a woman. This, during the time period, is restrictive enough. However, her social standing is damaging and leaves her with few options to become more.
The reader can infer that she has no one to spend her time with. Her loneliness is apparent when she gives her fur coat human characteristics. When she takes it out, she talks like it is an old friend: “What has been happening to me? Said the sad little eyes” (6) .Her assigning life-like qualities to inanimate objects shows how isolated she feels. Her descriptions of strangers in the park also give the reader a feeling of just how alone she feels.
Mansfield is essentially saying that Miss Brill has become so isolated from the rest of the world, that she’s resulted creating inanimate objects into companions. Miss Brill alters her perception of reality to escape the unpleasant aspects of her life. This is displayed with her sitting on a park bench, observing others. Brill states that others she observed “were odd, silent, nearly all old” and that “they looked as though they’d just come from little dark rooms.” She refuses to recognize herself as being in the same category as those she describes. Miss Brill also avoids certain aspects of her life with her perception of her being an actress.
The story is set near the turn of the twentieth century. The events take place in the Knobs region of Kentucky, specifically Nelson, Spencer, and Washington counties. The novel tells the story of a girl by the name of Ellen Chesser, the daughter of Henry and Nellie Chesser. The family is incredibly poor and travels in a beat up wagon in a traveling convoy of farm workers. When stopped in a small town, waiting for their wagon to be repaired, Henry is offered a job setting tobacco plants.
Boyd’s Mother is at home taking care of the children and the house while his father is working. Because of that the setting could be in the 18-19th century. It takes pace in America where the inhabitants often are ignorant and small-minded in small-town communities. One may think that Mrs. Wilson is a woman with many prejudices. She judges people from their background and their looks.
The main family in the story (the Logans) live on a farm and grow some of their own food but they still don’t have enough money and aren’t allowed to shop at white owners shop. The themes of the story are integrity, passive resistance, bravery, civil disobedience, internal belief system and leadership. I think it’s a good idea that the same person is telling the story because you can see how a young child reacts to being discriminated against, but the disadvantage is that you can’t hear the other side of the story. When the author describes something, she creates a vivid picture in your head for example, ‘Spring. It seeped unseen into the waiting red earth in early March, softening the hard ground for the coming