"The Chrysanthemums" was a fantastic story that made you stop and wonder about what really happened in this short story by John Steinbeck. If you had to go back and decipher through the lines to truly feel the impact of Eliza's struggle. Eliza's main struggle is with the monotony of her everyday life which suppresses her freedom, sexuality, and her desires as a women. What struggles are there? The person who read too fast might …showed first 75 words of 829 total…

…showed last 75 words of 829 total…dive deeper into her hidden little world. In Conclusion, Eliza's main struggle is with monotony of her every day life which suppresses her freedom, sexuality, and her desires as a women. These are all made worse by the tinker's short interaction with her because she wanted to break out of her cocoon and fly, but the tinker used her; thereby deepening her suppression of freedom, sexuality, and womanly desires leaving her and old weak women.