Loneliness And Confinement In The Chrysanthemums By John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck was a free-lance writer from California who became well known after his first published story in 1935. In his story The Chrysanthemums Steinbeck, uses the theme of loneliness and confinement. The main character Elisa Allen is mainly focused on her garden of chrysanthemums will her husband is unaware of the changes she is going through while he sits next to her. He used imagery to reinforce his theme of loneliness and confinement by giving a detailed look on the valley and the characters. First Steinbeck uses the valley to descried Elias emotional part of life. The text states “that The high gray-flannel fog of winter closed off the Salinas Valley from the sky and from all the rest of the world.,” (Steinbeck line1) which he