John steinbeck's chrysanthemums

John steinbeck's chrysanthemums:A farm wife's brief encounter with an itinerant tinker is used to examine the forces that prevent her from realizing her full potential

what it was like to be a female in the 1930s.he shows how isolated someone,especially woman..
Family values and traditions play a major role in the process of developing the themes of Steinbeck's major novels. He mixes hope and belief in higher powers with social corruption and pressures to conform. .
The wife, Elisa, in the Chrysanthemums, reflects an internal struggle to find her place in a world of definite gender roles.
Elisa Allen is a lonely woman who enj...