The Opening of DH Lawrence's Short Story Odour of Chrysanthemums In the opening of the short story, "Odour of Chrysanthemums", DH Lawrence talks about how industry is dominating nature. He tells us how mankind cannot stand in industry's way and that it is like a monster we created, which we cannot defeat. The mood Lawrence tries to create in the opening is gloomy and lifeless which suggests that the story will be sad and tragic. The words he uses to achieve this are mostly negative. The title is rather unusual. Lawrence does not use words that are usually associated with the smell of flowers, like "fragrance" or "scented". Instead, he chooses the word "odour" to indicate the smell of chrysanthemums. This suggests that they are starting to wilt because they tend to give off an unpleasant smell when they decompose. From these words, we have a sense that something is wrong and that it might be unpleasant or unhappy. It also suggests that the story might be related to death. The opening of the story starts by depicting the engine. It describes it with negative words like "clanking, stumbling" which is associated to noisiness and clumsiness, to make it sound dangerous and ugly. It is not accomplishing the promise to mankind to be fast as it only appears to have "loud threats of speed". Even the colt, which was frightened by it, ran faster. Lawrence is trying to acknowledge that nature is threatened by industry although it is much more beautiful. We humans cannot do anything to stop it, as Lawrence said, "she stood insignificantly trapped between the jolting black wagons and the hedge" when the women was walking up the railway. It i... ... middle of paper ... ...ace" suggesting that chrysanthemums are a remembrance of someone very close to her. This once again relates to the title, "Odour of Chrysanthemums". "Odour" suggesting death, tell us that the person who she is trying to remember is dead. This person could be the person she was expecting earlier, when she was watching the miners pass by. The opening of the story begins and ends with the engine, which represents industry dominating people's lives. Nature and industry are contrasting antitheses, suggesting that there will be conflict between them. By talking about them, suggests the story will be tragic. The title suggests something dying and there is a lot of tension in the mother and child relationship. The story will be sad because of the negative words used for the house, the nature, the people and the industry.
In Lynda Barry’s Common Scents, she considers scents a demon for many reasons. One reason being that everyone has his or her own scent preference and scent in general, yet we also judge the way that other people smell. When the woman whose house smelled like a fresh bus bathroom talking about the smells of different Asian people’s houses, Lynda notes that she was “free with her observations about the smells of others” (18). She sprays her house with disinfectant sprays and air fresheners, which to her smells better that whatever her house smelt like before, but to others, such as Lynda’s grandmother, these smells are too strong and are trying to hide the fact that not everything smells good all the time.
Within Steinbeck's story, "Chrysanthemums," the main character, Elisa Allen, is confronted with many instances of conflict. Steinbeck uses chrysanthemums to symbolize this conflict and Elisa's self-worth. By examining these points of conflict and the symbolism presented by the chrysanthemums, the meaning of the story can be better determined.
Walt Whitman's seventh poem in his work, Leaves of Grass, displays the subtlety with which the poet is able to manipulate the reader's emotions. In this poem there are no particular emotional images, but the overall image painted by word choice and use of sounds is quite profound. This poem, like many others written by Walt Whitman, is somewhat somber in mood, but not morose. It is serious, but not to the point of gloom. Whitman writes concerning the general idea that everything is merged together and is one. One cannot die without being born, just as one cannot be a mother without first having one. The purpose of the poem is to show those things that are real are true and holy, and even more importantly unified. In this poem he is speaking as some sort of omnipotent being, perhaps God or a soul.
Initially, John Steinbeck’s short story, “The Chrysanthemums” illustrates the internal conflict a sorrowful housewife faces. The day-to-day life of character, Elisa, seems like a boring one and Steinbeck attempts to remind the reader to not give into temptation and cherish loved ones. During the dialogue, Elisa’s husband, Henry, offers an idea to go out to dinner and the less than enthusiastic response of, “I’ll have plenty of time to transplant some of these sets” (Steinbeck 435) proves that Elisa cares more about her garden than spending time with her husband. Rather than make an effort to bond with her spouse, she appears to be reluctant when asked to go out and enjoy a simple night on the town. Additionally, the failure of a connection between the couple gives the Tinker an opening to make an impact on Elisa’s mental state. Once the Tinker gives her the least bit of attention, Elisa’s entire demeanor starts to change. When Elisa is first described to us, she is unwomanly: “her figure looked blocked and heavy, and she wore a “man’s black hat pulled low down over her eyes” (Steinbeck 438). Although, she is not portrayed as a strong symbol of femininity, the Tinker has spiked an interest in her taboo ways. In the web article “Symbolism in ‘The Chrysanthemums’,” Elizabeth Kassim classifies the tinker as the “catalyst in Elisa’s life”(http://www.lonestar.edu). The admiration of the flowers leads the tinker to admire Elisa. Her sexuality is defined by the chrysanthemums and she “tears off the battered hat and shakes out her dark pretty hair” (Steinbeck 441). With a few kind and well-placed remarks by the Tinker, Elisa thinks there could be a new beginning all aspects of her life. Elisa’s marriage and the way she feels about herself ...
In the Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, the Wisteria vine is an underlying symbol of how Turtle , astonishingly, blossoms out of her shell. The amazement of the Wisteria flower symbolizes the wonderment regarding the trouble Turtle has gone through. Turtle’s life before Taylor received her makes Turtle remarkably distraught; additionally, Taylor thinks about “the fact [that Turtle’s] short life [was lived] with a kind of misery [Taylor] could not imagine” (Kingsolver 21). The imaginability concerning Taylor seeing Turtle extremely beat up as well as in a state of where no one should be corresponds with the magnificent Wisteria flower blooming. Both have the ability to amaze; moreover, dumbfound the reader. The Wisteria vine amazes in a positive
In the year of 1912 tarry was raised in a foster home from abandoned parents.As tarry grows up he realizes he’s not normal.16 years later in the year of 1928 he finds a trail which leads to a place called the sold hallway as he looks at a guy in blue and thinks he looks nice.
Panty Pulpers is a group started by Drew Matott to bring attention and awareness to sexual assault victims. Matott went to college to become a professional print maker, but found a love of making paper. He blends his paper making with art therapy and social activism in many of his projects. Matott said that he wanted to make his work “more than a substrate”, and he certainly does, with projects like his Combat Paper Project is emotional, when veterans cut their uniforms to pieces and write letters or paint on to the paper made, is defiantly a work of activism. The same goes for Panty Pulpers, when victims of sexual violence are given the opportunity to cut up the clothing from a traumatic event, then make write poetry
To me it feels Lucy Larcom feelings are kinda Typical. She did mention how she was a country girl and it was un usual for country girls to work out in bigger places because there used to being so independent. I think that she liked it because being a country girl they liked being put to work or were always working hard because working in the country isn't easy. And now they only have to work a few hours a day. And they in joyed only having to work a few hours. In the quote they said that “The preferred it to going out as “hired help.”” Then Lucy went on saying how it was like a mans pleasure in entering upon a business. I do think what he thought was pretty typical and she did In joy it because it was something she has never done before so
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Steinbeck, John. “The Chrysanthemums” Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing. Ed. Edgar V Roberts and Robert Zweig. 10th ed. New York: Pearson Longman, 2012. 416-422. Print.
Although imagery and symbolism does little to help prepare an expected ending in “The Flowers” by Alice Walker, setting is the singular element that clearly reasons out an ending that correlates with the predominant theme of how innocence disappears as a result of facing a grim realism from the cruel world. Despite the joyous atmosphere of an apparently beautiful world of abundant corn and cotton, death and hatred lies on in the woods just beyond the sharecropper cabin. Myop’s flowers are laid down as she blooms into maturity in the face of her fallen kinsman, and the life of summer dies along with her innocence. Grim realism has never been so cruel to the innocent children.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is one of the most important Russian writers. Other Russian writers were Tolstoy, Torgenine and Pushkane. Anton was born in Taganrog in 1860, got educated at Moscow to become a doctor, soon he realized he has love for literature. Being a doctor he developed into a famous short story writer and dramatist. On the Road(1884), The Bear (1888), The Wood Demon(1889) are his early plays. His later plays areIvanhoe(1887),Three Sisters(1899), The Cherry Orchard(1904). His plays portray the 19th century Russian life in its variety facets.
“Odour of Chrysanthemums,” by D. H. Lawrence, tells a story of a woman named Elizabeth Bates, who is married to a man that works in the mines. The couple has two children, and they are expecting their third child. There is a lot trouble between them. The Bates family lives in poverty. The house where they live has no electricity and it needs to be lit up with torches. One night Mrs. Bates waits for her husband to come back home from work to serve dinner, but he never shows up. She thinks he may be drinking with his friends, and that maybe his friends are going to bring him back home drunk as usual. Time passes and Mrs. Bates does not hear from him. Later that night her mother in law arrives crying, then she begins suspect that something bad happens and her husband is dead. The central idea of liberation is expressed as the writer uses three elements of fiction to tell the story.
Sylvia Plath’s confessional poem is a free formed twenty line poem consisting of ten couplet stanzas which illustrate death as a state in which our imperfections are ignored. The subject of the poem is a woman who has been ‘perfected’ in death, having been released from her own personal suffering. For Plath death seems to be an achievement and just like the woman in the poem, Plath feels she will ultimately become ‘perfected’ when she too is dead. By not using the first person, Plath causes ‘the woman to become depersonalised’ and as a result the woman is distanced from the reader. This could possibly foreshadow how Plath herself, was withdrawing from life and people as she became more engulfed by depression and anxiety.
The narration above simply provides a vivid explication on how fun school is for Layla. School turns to be a moment where she finds most of her happiness. It does not necessarily mean that she is not happy at home, however, after getting her period, home connotes horror rather than place where one can find peace except for her private room. School offers Layla the freedom of just being herself where she does not feel the confinement at home. It also suggests that she values and treasures education and that she is waiting for achieving higher education, the university life. As personal, Layla strongly opposes the perception that the future of a girl is marriage (82). She is completely aware and believes that education can aids people to understand things and decide what is best for them (77).