The Chrysanthemums And The Painted Door By Sinclair Ross

loving and caring qualities of the husbands toward their wife's. In "The Painted Door", John, whose married to Anne, devotes a lot of his time to working in the farm. His goal is to pay off his mortgage as soon as possible and wants to be able to buy nice clothes for his wife. He's takes his wife into consideration when it comes to her feelings. For example, "[John] tried to brighten [his wife].(Pg.232)" when she was upset about him going to his fathers hou... In the story by Sinclair Ross “The Painted Door” the main character, Anne, represents a weak, unhappy, selfish and insecure woman who is not pleased with her husband’s life choices. Employing the Feminist approach to “The Painted Door” reveals striking aspects that would otherwise be
Both the stories through their unique writing style focus on Feminism during the mid 19th century. Both John Steinbeck and Sinclair Ross through their story are focusing on their main character’s frustration with their marriage, their sense of isolation from the world and their hidden desire to express themselves as a woman. In a sense both authors focus on the “unsatisfied lifestyle” of their main characters. “The Chrysanthemums” and “The Painted Door”, when approached from the archetypal viewpoint of “unsatisfied lifestyle” have comparable characters, symbols and plot. The main character of “The Chrysanthemums” and “The Painted Door” are comparable from the archetypal viewpoint of “unsatisfied lifestyle”. Elisa Allen, the main character of “The Chrysanthemums” and Ann, the main character of “The Painted Door” both live an unsatisfied
This is surprising because modernism is a vital part of the basic literature we read/enjoy today. Like many other significant movements, there are influential people behind the movement. I would consider Katherine Mansfield as being the “unsung hero” that helped make modernism, specifically female modernism, what it is today. Modernism is most often defined as “The combination of revolt against Victorian fathers, recognition of the artist’s alienation, pursuit of the contemporary in language, psychology and behavior, creation of dynamic forms in which to contain a newly awakened sense of present reality” (Kaplan 6). Basically, it was a new movement which introduced new views on art, social behaviors and language. (It’s essential to know that these views contradicted the old “Victorian” views.) I think it’s very important to emphasize that literature is one of the most notable things which was influenced by modernism. As you can imagine, if modernism had failed to become what it is today, we would still be living in the Victorian Era and have a different way of interpreting stories. Katherine Mansfield has been said to have helped spark the movement of “Female Modernism.” While Mansfield’s good friend Virginia Woolf is mostly credited for developing the underlying principles of this type of modernism (Kaplan), Kaplan argues that “Mansfield’s