The Chrysanthemums

Here I am agian, back with another blog on a new s.s.



This time I will be examining the s.s "The Chrysanthemmums" by John Stinekeck. In this s.s we delve into the life of the Elisa and her farm live routine. Elisa is a middle age wife of a farmer, who dose not see her life going anywhere fast and does not feel that she is appreciated for what she can do. In the story Elisa is visted by a traveling Tinker, a man who bangs pots and sharpens knives while on the road from city to city. The character of Elisa goes threw some large inward changes as she is visted and lead on by the Tinkers freedom and easy laidback life style to go and do as he please. She longs for the ability to be free from her hum drum life on the farm always under her hushands rules. Though it is not implied that her husband is a bad husband, we see by her attidtue that she has lost the flare in marrige and does not want to be held down.
As Elisa converses and opens up to the appealing Tinker, he willingly takes full advantage of the opertuniety and tries to get what he wants, to bang her pots. Unsuredly accepting him in, not knowing weather to prusue her hankering to be free, or to pull away and honor the vows she has made with her husband.