illustrated profile of a woman's head with cracks running through it set against a chrysanthemum background

The Chrysanthemums

by John Steinbeck

Start Free Trial

The Chrysanthemums Questions on Loneliness

The Chrysanthemums

She cries like an old woman because she is defeated and she is weakened and powerless to go back and change it.  She is defeated in the sense that the man from the repair wagon...

1 educator answer

The Chrysanthemums

In John Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums," irony and symbolism are pivotal. The chrysanthemums symbolize Elisa's strength, beauty, and unfulfilled desires, paralleling her constrained life. Irony...

12 educator answers