ChrysanthemumsEssay Preview: ChrysanthemumsReport this essayDerek GrudzieskiAnalytical EssayEnglish 1302Prof: M. HallThe ChrysanthemumsIn the story, “The Chrysanthemums”, John Steinbeck shows how loneliness and isolation throughout the story of a lonely woman, Elisa Allen, and her unfulfilled life and how the ending is as failed as Elisas life.
In the story Elisa Allen is a woman who is in a sense held subject to the housewife role. The only real freedom she has is when she works in her garden of beautiful chrysanthemums. John Steinbeck uses many symbolic phrases in this story. There comes a part in the story where the tinker comes along, and under this wagon is a rangy dog. This dog leaves the wagon to explore some of the ranch that is owned by Elisa and her husband Henry. When the dog gets no further that the gate two shepherds intercept the dog. The two shepherds scared the dog and it states, “With his tail between his legs returns under the wagon.” This symbolizes how Elisa feels like she can go no where other than the confines of her home.
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