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☆☆☆☆☆In the story “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck, the chrysanthemums symbolize Elisa’s confidence and her feminist side.
The six ways an author can reveal character traits are: the authors direct comments about the character, the character's appearance, the character's speech, the character's thoughts, the character's actions, and other characters' words or thoughts about the character.
She shows that she has begun to trust when she opens up conversationally about her flowers, and also physically, when she takes off her hat, draws out her hair, and invites him beyond the fence.
Elisa Takes great care of the things she loves, like her garden.
unreliable
The language, diction, and tone (Apex)
That she feels trapped by her surroundings
Steinbeck's initial description of the stranger's wagon makes the character seem almost comical. APEX
Falling action
Apex
The setting feels isolated and closed in.
if a physician of high standing, in one’s own husband, Asher’s friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency - what is one to do? Apex
she want to bring his son back to life
Separated from the outside world, Elisa has a few human connections.
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foreshadowing
The Salinas Valley is covered by fog, making it a closed
Kady would attend the event, take notes on the presentations, and present her findings to the class
The author is hinting that good people will soon change to bad.
The color is repellent almost revolting a smoldering unclean yellow strangely faded by the slow turning sunlight it is doll yet learned orange in some places a sickly self or i oth
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