Blog#2 :Symbols and symbolic actions of " The Chrysanthemums"by John Steinbeck

Since Prof. told us that our blog does not have to in essay form, I decided to edit my blog assignment#2. And I have been thinking about it over days and days,specially in the shower some ideas are just time to be written down. Somehow it feels so free since there is no rules or red colored papers back. But on the other hand, I am very sure that it will be hard for you, the readers to understand and follow my writing. So here it goes, my very broken English.

Writer used the title,chrysanthemum, is a flower that does not look so delicate. It has tall stem and it is a fast growing plant. Also, it is strong to fight with cold winter. However, it needs little more care when it blooms. So, John Steinbeck use this particular flower to symbolize the main character, Elisa. Elisa is described in the beginning of the story as a strong and energetic young lady. Indeed, it seemed from the reading that she was quite protected when she was working in the garden. So did the chrysanthemums that she was planting
It implies that she may get used to protect herself from getting hurt or she is very afraid that someone hurt her or the flower.
To me, the most interesting symbolic action that writer used was conversation between Elisa and a man with wagon. For instance, in paragraph 50, the men saw how to approach Elisa, and he says how unpleasant Elisa or women are by describing chrysanthemums. but Elisa does not agree with him.
To Elisa, the men seemed that he is very interested to deliver some chrysanthemums to someone he knew, but his real intention was to get a food for the night. He just used the story of delivering the flower's seed to approach Elisa, and this way she would let him to do some "fixing" that he wanted to do for some money.And writer used the symbolic action like the men saying "Sand,ma'am? ...Sand? Oh,sure. You mean around the chrysanthemums."--which tells us that men has already forgotten about the chrysanthemums, even before he leaves.
Elisa saying to the caravan that she wishes to live like him on the wagon all alone means that she wanted a freedom.Specially, "...I wish women could do such things."she said, so it showed that women were expected to be in certain way and had no freedom.
Elisa's conversation with her husband, there are many symbols and symbolic actions that author used. One of them is about price fight. Elisa must have hurt so badly over the years by his husband and other men badly enough that she wondered whether men ever hurt or is there any ways to hurt the men back. But she found that she has been hurt worse than men who is bleeding to death in the "prize fight."