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`The Chrysanthemums` and `Woman Hollering Crek`

John Steinbeck 's The Chrysanthemums ' and Sandra Cisneros 's Woman Hollering Creek

2009

John Steinbeck 's The Chrysanthemums ' and Sandra Cisneros ' Woman Hollering Creek ' reveals an a pressing human dilemma that persists through people 's lifetime - how much adjustment people can make in their lives , what they values are , and what they wish to maintain in their lives . Both stories depict fundamental differences between the way women see themselves , search for their identity in society and the way they are perceived by men

Steinbeck 's The Chrysanthemums ' reveal through Elisa

's character how a woman 's life is short-changed . Elisa is not allowed to be part of the business life of the ranch , to go to boxing matches or to even drive cars , though she shows some curiosity about such things . In addition there 's other evidence that points in the story to the superiority of a man 's life , and the constriction of a woman 's . Of course , when audience meets Elisa she is by her "hard-swept " little house , both confined behind a fence - suggesting perhaps how a woman in society is often confined to a domestic sphere . In to emphasize his image of Elisa , Steinbeck provides audience with a closing view of Elisa "She turned up her coat collar so he could not see that she was crying weakly - like an old woman (Steinbeck , 11 . The images associated with men in the story , on the opposite , demonstrate either a pragmatic , irreverent or antagonistic attitude toward life...

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