Steinbeck’s “The Chrysanthemums” Elisa Allen is a lonely woman who enjoys growing and nourishing her chrysanthemums in the valley of Salinas‚ California. But‚ with all the beauty of the beautiful valley she feels isolated from the world. “The high grey-flannel fog of winter closed off the Salina Valley from the sky and from all the rest of the world. On every side it sat like a lid on the mountains and made of the great valley a closed pot.”(347 paragraph 1) Elisa is frustrated with her marriage
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The Chrysanthemum In the Chrysanthemum‚ Elisa is a woman married to a man who makes her unhappy and she does nothing about this. Elisa lives her unhappy life while being gardener like her mother and other woman once were. Elisa troubles are in my opinion entirely her fault and she is responsible for everything that happens to her. Elisa is a woman who’s unhappy with the overall image of a woman and what a woman was supposed to do; like stay in the home and be the gardener and
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represents inequality of gender‚ limitations‚ and feminism. The story is about a married woman living in the early 1900s who longs for a more exciting‚ meaningful existence. Elisa Allen is intelligent‚ accomplished‚ attractive‚ and ambitious. Yet she feels confined in her life and marriage. Steinbeck uses the world around Elisa to give the reader a comparison to her life. The story takes place in the Salinas Valley at her husband‚ Henry Allen’s‚ ranch in the foot-hills. Steinbeck opens the story
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that someone else did not. I will be describing a certain scene and explain how and why I would direct my film. Focusing on an expert from the short story when Elisa goes up to her room to get ready for her night out with her husband and on until she see’s her chrysanthemum bulbs on the side of the road robbed of the pot. Elisa stands tall and strong‚ she looks lean and maybe once an athlete. She is a tan‚ sun kissed woman from working out in the sun with her flowers. She examines her body
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entrance of Elisa in “The Chrysanthemums”‚ written by John Steinbeck in 1938‚ she is found in her garden. Her garden is explained to be fenced in‚ “wire fence that protected her flower garden from cattle and dogs and chickens.” (Steinbeck‚ para 2‚ 1938). This fence is clarified to be there for her protection from wandering animals‚ this could also be interpreted as the imprisonment‚ if you will‚ of Elisa. Not to be confused with a prison for Elisa herself‚ as
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when combined with the point of view‚ is what brings out the best of Elisa and makes her realize that the things she does in life are not for other people to look down upon‚ but instead for people to bask in their glory as they provide nothing else but total sanctity‚ aloofness‚ and amazement‚ but there are still factors in the society that do not allow for such dreams to come true. The initial detailed description of Elisa in the beginning of the story shows a very covered and repressed woman
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grow‚ make decisions‚ free to travel‚ make her own money and most of all the desire to be attractive. Elisa feels closed in and secluded from the rest of the world‚ just as Steinbeck describes the atmosphere at the introduction of the story‚ “The high grey-flannel fog of winter closed off the Salinas Valley from the sky and from all the rest of the world” (192). Feeling weak and powerless‚ Elisa unconsciously demonstrates the characteristics of masculinity in order to assimilate into a world not
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character‚ Elisa‚ is first introduced‚ she isn’t sexualized. She is depicted as “blocked and heavy‚” wearing a “man’s black hat pulled low down over her eyes”. While dressing manly and having masculine traits‚ Elisa gardens‚ which itself is an extremely feminine trait yet she’s described in a masculine way. It is mentioned in the story that Elisa’s mother was also a gardener which could possible show
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share similar characteristics. In “The Chrysanthemums” the main character Elisa Allen struggles to find her identity and loses her love and passion for her husband. In “Araby” the main character which remains unnamed also struggles in his identity and his love life‚ with his next door neighbor. Comparably both characters are struggling with the phases they are encountering in life. To begin with‚ the main character Elisa Allen in “The Chrysanthemums” struggles in her relationship with her husband
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means that the world is clean and beautiful before man was created because they are destroying it. This is true because of all the pollution and war that are causes of man. In the text The Chrysanthemums by John Stein Beck‚ it’s about a girl named Elisa and a stranger; the stranger had betrayed and broke her hearth. Also the Night by Elie Wiesel‚ It’s about the Germans and the consecration camps and what they did to the Jews. Nietzche quote is true because every day man is destroying the earth in
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