The Chrysanthemums

• You can look at this story from a feminist and gender critisism. The man kind of over powers the woman in the story. This is a traditional role today and back then. She works very hard on her garden, and this is what a traditional role of a woman would be. She never tells her husband that she is unhappy which is like some women. They had their feelings from their husband because they are in the end, scared of them. She also ends up dressing up just to impress her husband to make him love her more.
• Elisa is married to Henry. She is a very hard worker when it comes to her garden of chrysanthemums. Her husband teases her by asking her if she would like to go to the fights, but he ends up saying she wouldn't like going anyways. This upsets Elisa. A man appears after Henry leaves to the fights looking for work. She offers him to fill pots. She takes a bath and looks at herself. She tries to make herself appealing to her husband by dressing up and putting make up on. the husband is surprised by her appearance. It kind of puts Elisa down, but she goes out to eat with him. She is excited to go to eat with him, but he says she is different. In the end, her husband upsets her, so she cries.