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Anthony I like the examples of imagery you present to back up your claim of nice weather as a symbol in the short story, The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck. The use of “fog of winter” and “painting in her flower garden” contrast her facial features such seen through the excellent imagery examples of her face provide “Elisa face as lean and strong “ and “her eyes was as clear as water”. This provides the reader likemyself a visual images that allow me to contrast the nice weather and her beauty and recognize how nature to its self is beautiful just like Elisa. I also think that by following up with other examples of this throughout the story like when Elisa meets the man and how he help her recognize this beauty through the way he addresses
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