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The Chrysanthemums ~ A Classic American Short Story by John Steinbeck (1902-1968) The high grey-flannel fog of winter closed off the Salinas Valley from the sky and from all the rest of the world. On every side it sat like a lid on the mountains and made of the great valley a closed pot. On…
You can read ‘The Chrysanthemums’ here before proceeding to our summary and analysis of the story below. ‘The Chrysanthemums’: plot summary. The story is set during the Great Depression in the US in the 1930s. Elisa Allen is a 35-year-old wife of a rancher in Salinas Valley in California (the setting for many of Steinbeck’s short ...
Published in 1937, John Steinbeck ’s short story “The Chrysanthemums” tells the story of Elisa Allen, a woman living on a ranch in the Salinas Valley in California. Elisa is a capable and energetic woman who is frustrated with the limitations of her life and her marriage. As she tends to her chrysanthemum garden, a tinker arrives ...
The chrysanthemums should take root in about a month, but the most important thing that he must remember to tell his customer is to cut the chrysanthemums about eight inches from the ground in July, before they bloom in late September. Elisa immediately responds to the tinker’s feigned interest.
Elisa Allen - A thirty-five-year-old woman who lives on a ranch just across the Salinas River with her husband, Henry. Elisa is described as having a "lean and strong" face and eyes as "clear as water" and when wearing her gardening costume, she looks like she has a blocked and heavy figure. [1] Elisa usually spends her time in the garden ...
John Steinbeck. (27 de febrero, 1902 – 20 de diciembre, 1968) Los crisantemos (1937) (“The Chrysanthemums”) Originalmente publicado en Harper’s Magazine, 175 (Octubre 1937); The Long Valley. (Nueva York: The Viking Press, 1938, 303 págs.) Una niebla invernal, gris y espesa separaba al Valle de Salinas del cielo y del resto del mundo.
Historical Context of The Chrysanthemums. Steinbeck wrote and published “The Chrysanthemums” in 1937, one year after the New Deal, a series of public programs and projects implemented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt’s New Deal sought to bring relief and reformation to those who were hit hardest by the Great Depression, and ...
