Jan 1, 2010

Odour of Chrysanthemums | Style

Setting
‘‘Odour of Chrysanthemums’’ is a story about Elizabeth Bates and the recognition she gains, upon her husband’s death, concerning the gap between them. The style of ‘‘Odour of Chrysanthemums’’ is highly poetic and is characterized by a profusion of descriptive adjectives and adverbs. The story’s first paragraph juxtaposes the hard, inhuman machineworld of the mine and the beautiful, vulnerable, natural world. This description introduces the gap between people and nature which will widen at the end of the story to reveal an absolute division between...