In "Odour of Chrysanthemums,"" D.H. ... Rather than imbuing a pleasing fragrance, it suffocates the reader with an odor, a stench the stench of death. ... "Beside the path hung disheveled pink chrysanthemums, like pink cloths hung on bushes- (Lawrence, 2317). ... At this point, the reader comes to Lawrence's most obvious symbolic usage of the chrysanthemum. ... It was chrysanthemums when I married him, and chrysanthemums when you were born, and the first time they ever brought him home drunk, he'd got brown chrysanthemums in his buttonhole- (Lawrence, 2321). ...

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• Grade Level: High School