Odour of Chrysanthemums | Essays and Criticism

  • Imagery in the "Odour of Chrysanthemums"

    Lovesey currently teaches at Okanagan University College in Kelowna, British Columbia. In the following essay, he offers an in-depth analysis of the imagery in Lawrence’s ‘‘Odour of Chrysanthemums.’’

  • Analysis of Elizabeth Bates

    In the following excerpt from commentary on ‘‘Odour of Chrysanthemums,’’ Black suggests some meanings that the reader may be intended to draw from the story’s portrayal of Elizabeth Bates’s series of thoughts, moods, and emotions as she first angrily, then fearfully, awaits her husband’s return, and then strips, washes, and lays out his dead body.

  • Lawrence’s ‘Odour of Chrysanthemums’: Isolation and Paradox

    In the following excerpt, Hudspeth discusses ways that Lawrence presents a history of the Bates’s married life through depicting Elizabeth Bates’s state of mind as she waits for her husband, not knowing he has been killed.

  • D. H. Lawrence and the Short Story

    In the following excerpt, Amon briefly notes the principal themes and symbols in ‘‘Odour of Chrysanthemums’’ and comments on the story’s characteristic autobiographical elements.