Charles A. Sweet, Jr. (essay date 1974)
SOURCE: “Ms. Elisa and Steinbeck's ‘The Chrysanthemums’,” in Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2, Summer, 1974, pp. 210–14
[Here, Sweet asserts that “The Chrysanthemums” can be read as Steinbeck's response to feminism.]
In a recent article on Steinbeck's “The Chrysanthemums,” Elizabeth McMahan began “Virtually every critic who has considered John Steinbeck's short story ‘The Chrysanthemums’ has agreed that its basic theme is a woman's frustration, but none has yet...
Source: Short Story Criticism, ©2000 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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