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Chrysanthemums
Title: Chrysanthemums
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 263 | Pages: 1.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Chrysanthemums
“Chrysanthemums”
When Elisa sees the chrysanthemum sprouts on the road, she feels betrayed, a victim of her own romantic reverie. She has invited a stranger into her world and has seen into his world what she imagines as a brighter, freer existence than her own.
This interlude in her life has given her an insight into her own strength, but not without leaving her with a sense of guilt. When the man enters her garden, …showed first 75 words of 263 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 263 total…is “scratched and red”. Although true to her husband, she has strayed in thought.
Elisa holds herself to a high moral standard as a good wife and feels guilty for her escapist thoughts. She is further humiliated when she finds that her feelings were all based on a pretense. The chrysanthemums in the road show that the relationship is based on fraud. Her enhanced belief in herself is shattered and she becomes crushed and weak.
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