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At this point the reader starts to sense Elisa’s loss of confidence. Elisa was resistant to the pot fixer at first, but when the Pot fixer asked Elisa what her plants were, she could not resist his selling technique. “The irritation and resistance melted from Elisa’s face.”(Steinbeck 229). Elisa became weak when the pot fixer asked about her chrysanthemums. At first she was resistant to him, but the Chrysanthemums now had power over her.
Although Elisa tries to resist the pot fixer, she lets his tactics get the best of her when he continues to talk about her chrysanthemums. She gives in and finds work for him that she does not need really need done. “At the back of the house she dug in the can pile and fund two old and battered aluminum saucepans… ‘Here, maybe you can fix these’” (Steinbeck 231). At this point Elisa has lost control, and the situation is out of her