SOURCE: “Ms. Elisa and Steinbeck's ‘The Chrysanthemums’,” in Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2, Summer, 1974, pp. 210–14
Here, Sweet asserts that “The Chrysanthemums” can be read as Steinbeck's response to feminism.
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