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The Chrysanthemums
Title: The Chrysanthemums
Category: Literature
Details: Words: 747 | Pages: 3.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Chrysanthemums
A short story set in central California's Salinas Valley, in a December during the Great Depression, "The Chrysanthemums" by John Steinbeck expresses through subtext a thirty-five year old woman's struggle with her identity. The story opens in the quiet setting of a farm in the Salinas River Valley and "Elisa Allen working in her flower garden, ...her figure ... blocked and heavy in her gardening costume, a man's black hat pulled down over her eyes, clod-hopper …showed first 75 words of 747 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 747 total…trouble expressing them to others. Elisa also realizes that she will probably never be accepted in a man's world the way she wishes to be seen, as an equal. Never finding her freedom, Elisa gets upset and goes to take a shower. "And then she scrubbed herself with a little block of pumice... until her skin was scratched and red." Cleansing her body helps Elisa to "wash away" her masculinity and begin to feminize herself.
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