Flowers And The Magician By Rob Simpson

In The Chrysanthemums, Elisa is a woman who is trapped at her husband Henry’s ranch by her gender and society’s idea of what a woman can manage. She is a very strong, capable woman who works all day to make the house spotless and the garden thrive. Elisa is good at her work, “behind her stood the neat white farm house… it was hard swept looking little house, with hard-polished windows, and a clean mud-mat on the front steps”. That show just how much work she puts into keeping the house clean. Elisa knows she is capable of successfully accomplishing any number of what society labels as men’s work and being held back makes her bitter and resentful. In an attempt to feel freedom, Elisa gifts some of her chrysanthemums to a traveling solicitor. She is devastated when she spots the flowers dumped on the road on her way to town with Henry. Elisa, like her flowers, feels discarded and devalued by men and society.

Because the tulips are a representation of life to Sylvia Plath they cause her to think about it,’ they concentrate my attention’, this shows that these flowers are a constant reminder to Plath about her ‘husband and child’ and her responsibilities and commitments. The constant interruption by the tulips and how the poet personifies them makes the flowers seem as though they want to be acknowledged and Plath’s acknowledgement of the tulips draws her attention away from her peaceful and quiet state of mind to the life that she so desires to escape from.

She is upset by the loss of the day even though her mother attempts to distract her with a garden of flowering violets, her father also attempts to comfort her. Finally, she returns to sleep after dinner. Her memory is a positive memory and the motif if the violets are used to link the past and present as it will help her get through her dark times. In the visual her memory is included, and he mother confronting her is one of the main images that she remembers from this. The image of her mother comforting her is a very important one, as it establishes the role and persona of a mother at the time and how women in that era were seen as to stay home look after children and the men went out and worked to support the

Dahlia went to the garden everyday she even slept through the night to seek for creativity , inspiration . She needed time alone to think of something new. Something no one has ever tried before. One night Dahlia was walking through the garden and it was there where it all started , when she found a mysterious door, she opened it and she never in her life saw millions of colorful flowers , they weren’t like the floweres in the garden, they were magical. That’s

The setting of Alice Walkers short story” The Flowers” is important for us, the readers to obtain a perspective of how life was like growing up for a 10 year old African American girl by the name of Myop. The title of the story is “The Flowers.” When you think about flowers, you instantly compare them to being beautiful, pure, and innocent. The title of the “The Flowers” is a symbolism that correlates to Myop who is the protagonist of the story. Myop is just like a flower in the beginning of the story. She’s a pure and innocent child but that pure innocence changes when she discovers something that’ll change her life forever.

The literary devices that May uses throughout the poem represent the understanding of the human mind. May states,“I've grown in secret.” The plants that the speaker tends to are a metaphor to illustrate self identity. By growing in secret, the speaker mind and understanding grows like a plant, unnoticed by the world. In addition, this illustrates that one’s self identity is found through the growth of understanding about one’s self. A flower is a garderns goal to achieve, as in a goal for

In this “Autumn” chapter, Claudia MacTeer uses flower imagery to describe how she and Frieda respond to their environment. This metaphor calls attention to the importance of nurture and environment for these young children, especially during these formative years of childhood. Like flowers, we depend on our environment for sustenance, so in turn, Pecola Breedlove, Soaphead Church, and Louis, Jr., inherit the legacy of self-loathing and Claudia and Frieda MacTeer inherit the legacy of self-worth.

The world is a lonely place for people. Some people are lonelier than others. John Steinbeck’s “The Chrysanthemums” and Of Mice and Men portrays two of the loneliest women. Although, they have many differences they have many similarities. They both aren't understood by their husbands, have had their hopes and dreams crushed, are “crippled” by their genders, and they live the american dream that many people die trying to achieve.

Resilience is something that some people would give anything to have, the price however is sometimes steep. The price of resilience can be personality, a relationship with family, or a person's modesty. By hardening themselves against the outside world some people lose a part of their personality and become much different than they were before, such as Allen Wheelis from “Grass”. Other times people sacrifice a relationship with someone they care about to become resilient, shutting them out so that they can not hurt them anymore, Elizabeth from “Jericho”, a short story by Margaret Price, is an example of this. Lastly some people who are resilient get what is called survivor’s pride, and in turn become arrogant, an example

Most of the time there is a moment in life where one realizes they have lost all innocence and gained some compassion.  “Marigolds” shows how one young girl transferred from a child to young adult through her life experiences.  Throughout this story another young, but at the same time old in her prime, lady’s experiences are revealed:  the author’s.  In this short story, “Marigolds,” Eugenia Collier’s subconscious is unmasked through symbolism, diction, and Lizabeth’s actions.

"The Chrysanthemums" introduces us to Elisa Allen, a woman who knows she has a gift for growing things, but it seems to be limited to her garden. Diligently working in her garden, Elisa watches as men come and go, living their lives unconfined, wondering what it must feel like to have that freedom. That emotion is revealed as Elisa gases at her husband and acquaintances talking, "she looked down toward the men by the tractor shed now and then." As she tills the soil for her chrysanthemums Elisa tills the thoughts in her head. The garden she so desperately maintained represents her world. A world that will only flourish if nourished. Emotional nourishment and stimulation is what Elisa lacked and longed for. The garden is limited in space to grow and so is her marriage. The garden is safe, non-threatening and so is her world. The garden contains many different elements that make it what it is, although unseen, and if the proper nourishment is not given it will die, as with Elisa.

John Steinbeck's short story “The Chrysanthemums” first appeared in the October 1937 edition of Harper's Magazine. The story was written during a time of inequality of the sexes. Women had “a place” in which they were expected to stay. In “The Chrysanthemums”, John Steinbeck uses symbolism to illustrate how Elisa, a strong, proud, and capable woman, had become discontented and frustrated with their lack of children, Henry’s neglect of their romantic life and her role in society in general.

So well in fact, that the morals of this story have stuck with me since I read the book myself when I was very young. Chrysanthemum is teased in school because her name is too long, because it “scarcely fits on her name tag”, and because she is named after a flower. She feels terrible even

Mrs. Flowers’ actions are a lifeline to Marguerite because at first Marguerite was silent but Mrs. Flowers said “I had planned to invite you for cookies and lemonade,” and that had made Marguerite feel good that she was thought of and liked. She had read to Marguerite and she had thought “her reading was a wonder in my ears,” she had also trusted Marguerite with a book that was her favorite that was called “A Tale of Two Cities”. Mrs. Flowers had shown Marguerite that she was liked, and she had realized after all that had been done for her that she was liked.

Her house was beautiful in its day, but as the flower fades in summers long heat- so too this very structure becomes brittle; yet it has spirited character beyond years! It