Odour of Chrysanthemums | John Bates
John Bates is the five-year-old son of Elizabeth and Walter Bates and the brother of Annie Bates. At the beginning of the story, he is called in from playing outside. He is resentful and defiant towards his mother, who wants to keep him from playing at the brook and from doing things that she considers ‘‘nasty,’’ like destroying flowers. John wears a ‘‘cut down’’ version of men’s clothes and his mother wishes to make him into a more respectable adult than his father. Inside the house John works at a piece of wood with a knife, and his mother ‘‘saw the father in her...
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