The Chrysanthemums Comparative Essay

The Quest for a Fulfilled Life

“The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck and “How I met my Husband” by Alice Munro are excellent piece of literature and also provoking short stories with a unique form of writing. Both short stories through their unique form of writing depict Feminism during the mid eighteen-century. Both Alice Munro and John Steinbeck in their story emphasizes on their main protagonist frustration on lack of intimacy, unsatisfied lifestyle, and hidden desires to express themselves as a woman. “How I met my Husband” and “The Chrysanthemums” when approached from a typical viewpoints of “unsatisfied lifestyle” and “lack of intimacy” have comparable characters.

Elisa Allen, the main protagonist of “The Chrysanthemums” main purpose of her unsatisfied way of life was her …show more content…
Elisa remains a sexual individual, a quality that Steinbeck depicts as ordinary and attractive. As a result of her desires, Elisa’s fascination in the tinker is startlingly intense and wild. When she addresses him about looking at the stars during the nights for instance, her language is almost obscene ‘’’When the night is dark –why the stars are sharp –pointed, and there’s quite. Why you rise up! Every pointed stars gets driven into your body its like that. Hot sharp and lovely’’’ (Steinbeck 231) . She stoops before him in a stance of sexual submission, almost reaching toward him and looking, as Steinbeck puts it, "She crouched low like a fawning Dog"(Steinbeck 231). Elisa puts herself helplessly before a complete stranger. The fallout of Elisa's attraction is maybe significantly more harming than the attraction itself. Her sexuality, compelled to lie dormant for so long, overpowers her and crushes her soul in the wake of springing to life so all of a

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