Chrysanthemum responce

In the short and complex story Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck, there is a young woman named Eliza Allen who is a very dynamic character. She is a different women who lives to grow chrysanthemums, she seems timid and afraid of men and showing her feminine side. Eliza seems to be always challenging men, like she wants them to know that she is good enough and worth somthing. She is fickel and can't seem to make up her mind weather she wants to be timid and meek or strong and free willed. Both her personalitys contrast and she is given this weird personality, she seems to want freedom and is comptemplating wether she wants to get it. She does'nt seem to want to voice her views and dreams, yet when she does she feels surprised and becomes meek again. Through out the story Eliza leads us on a whorl wind roller coaster ride of her emotions, Eliza is a women who does'nt know what she wants and the only thing she knows is how to grow and raise crysanthemums. In the story Eliza in counters a tinker man who trys to persuade her to let him fix something for her. In a way both Eliza and the tinker are insinuating towards him fixing something other than her pots. Eliza is very firm on not having any thing for the man to fix until he takes notice of her precious Chrysanthemums then her bitter demeanor vanishes and she becomes a new lady, passionate and beautiful. The quote i chose to show the two meanings in this story was "I can show you what a women could do". Through out the story Eliza and the man seem to have a double take on everything they talk about. For example the tinker seems to refer to fixing pots a lot of the time, but a reader could easily interpreted that he was referring to fixing Eliza's needs. Eliza also makes a couple remarks and actions that give the reader another view of the story. For example this quote reflects how her words could be easily misinterpreted. "Elisa's voice grew husky. She broke in on him. "I've never lived as you do, but I know what you mean. When the night is dark--why, the stars are sharp-pointed, and there's quiet. Why, you rise up and up! Every pointed star gets driven into your body. It's like that. Hot and sharp and--lovely." Alot of the converstations in this short story have a double meaning and it gives the characters different characteristic and makes the story more intresting and compelling.