The Birth and Death of a Modern Woman: On the Book "The Chrysanthemums" by John Steinbeck.

The Birth and Death of a Modern Woman Although the suffrage movement gave women equality and the women's the right to vote; it took some years for a lot of women to evolve into the woman of today. Not only did it take women a long time, but it took men longer to give up the control they had over them in the past and accept them as equal. In "The Chrysanthemums" by John Steinbeck, …

…also like the flowers when the bloom had faded she had to be cut, and in this cut it was the loss of her role as a modern day woman. In spite of her overbearing and controlling husband she finds her role only to lose it again because of her inability to communicate her feelings and her inability to have the fortitude to maintain her newfound strength. Works Cited: Steinbeck, John. "The Chrysanthemums." Publisher. Date.