The Chrysanthemums

The Chrysanthemums By John Steinbeck is about a women who feels almost trapped you would say. It's about a women named Elisa who loves gardening her flowers which are Chrysanthemums, her husband named Henry, and a man named Tinker. You can almost say she feels unhappy about her life but turns to gardening as an escape. Her husband Henry is a nice man but almost seems like he doesn't know how to appreciate her or make her feel loved. The man Tinker is stopping by one day to offer his business because he claims he needs to eat and business is slow. A tinker usually repairs like pots, pans, or kitchen ware. Elisa claims that she doesn't really have any work for him but he begs and pleads. He's a sly cons-man almost. He uses her love for flowers to get money and what he wants. He claims to know a women who's been looking to grow Chrysanthemums and was wondering if he would be able to take some to her. Elisa becomes excited and tells him all the instructions on how to grow them. Then she comes around to saying that he could    fix a few pans for pay. Of course in reality he had no interest for the flowers or no friend that wanted to grow them. Henry and Elisa go into town for dinner and on the way there she sees her Chrysanthemums thrown out on the side of the road. That breaks her heart and she cries. I think she felt an emotional attachment with the flowers because of how dull and unhappy her life was.When she saw the flowers on the side of the road she took it as her prized possessions being destroyed and it made her think all men are arrogant jerks.