The Chrysanthemums

The Chrysanthemums Criticism

• Introduction
• Principal Works
• Essays
  • John Steinbeck: Journeyman Artist
  • Objectivity As Approach and As Method
  • The Lost Dream of Sex and Childbirth in ‘The Chrysanthemums’
  • ‘The Chrysanthemums’: Study of a Woman's Sexuality
  • Ms. Elisa and Steinbeck's ‘The Chrysanthemums’
  • The Original Manuscripts of Steinbeck's ‘The Chrysanthemums’
  • The Real Woman Inside the Fence in ‘The Chrysanthemums’
  • ‘The Chrysanthemums’: Waiting for Rain
  • A Kind of Play: Dramatic Elements in Steinbeck's ‘The Chrysanthemums’
  • ‘The Chrysanthemums’ Revisited
  • The Chrysanthemums
  • ‘The Chrysanthemums’: Repression and Desire
  • ‘The Chrysanthemums’: Steinbeck's Pygmalion
  • Longing for the Lost Frontier: Steinbeck's Vision of Cultural Decline in ‘The White Quail’ and ‘The Chrysanthemums’
• Further Reading