The Chrysanthemums was a short story written by John Steinbeck in 1937. This short story was about a pretty yellow flower. John Steinbeck did a good job in written this story. The main character Elisa is a hard working women who can plant really nice chrysanthemums in her garden and can get them to grow up looking really good.
One day Elisa was working in her garden planting her pretty chrysanthemums, and her husband Henry is out in the fields working. A old man that is in a wagon comes along and tries to get Elisa to buy something, or to get her to let him replace something of hers to make some money. Elisa had nothing for the man to do so he pretended to be interested in her pretty yellow chrysanthemums.
She told him how they are chrysanthemums, he said that their was a women up the road who wanted some of those flowers. Elisa without giving it a second thought ran to the house and gave this man some of the flowers. She was just trying to be nice and give him something to do......

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Title: The Chrysanthemums
Approximate Word Count: 4379
Approximate Pages: 18 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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