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A Deeper Look into Sexuality of Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums" and its Literary Criticisms

Reading over this excellent story once more, I am again filled with the same emotion (if it can be called that) that I experienced when first reading it. Steinbeck planned for that. In a letter to George Albee in 1933, Steinbeck comments on this st ....

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.... which is a valid point, but it ignores too many other things in the story to fit it well. I found the words of R.S. Hughes to be a little trite. He seemed unable to grasp some uniquely feminine emotions. He doesn't quite catch onto the eroticism of the story, and in stead, chooses to focus on the more crude innuendoes. “...The chrysanthemum stalks seem to be phallic symbols, and Eliza's “over-eager” snipping of them suggests castration. Then in the “rooting” bed, Eliza herself becomes masculine, inserting the “little crisp shoots” into open, receptive furrows” (Hughes 235). He goes on ....

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