Analysis on the Odour of Chrysanthemums

2009年第2期高校教育研究学术论坛goaoriajojjAnalysis on the Odour of Chrysanthemums(大连水产学院116023)[Abstract] Symbolism ond inagery is the main characteristie of D. H. Lawrence' . writing style. This essay lays special stresson the sbort stories of him, and takes one of his short stories, The Odour of Chrysanthenuas, a a exaple to demonstrate thesymbolie meaning .[Key words] short story symbolismchryaothemum[中图分类号] G64 [文 献标识码] A(文章编号] 1009-9646(2009)02(a)-0219-011 Background of the Storysociating the son's 'bad' qualitis with s esential selfhood.The development of 'Odour of his father.Chrysanthemums’is typical of the pro-A further dimension is added to the3 Symbolism of the Chrysanthermumnscess by which many of Lawrence' s earlydrama when Mrs.Bates goes to a neighborThe chrysanthemums in the story sym-stories reached their final published formto enquire about her husband.It clearlybolize Elizabeth' s emotions. It means川. It probably wrote in the autumn of costs her something 1to reveal her anxietythe misery in bher life. At the beginning of1909 and it was revised again and again.to people she regards as inferior,and the the story, Elizabeth has tucked a chry-This is the version that appeared in his broader dialet spoken by the Rigleys and santhemum into the waisband of her apron, .first cllection of short stories, The Prus-the wary respect with which they treat and there are more decorating the parlor,sian Officer, published in November 1914.Mrs. Bates suggests they are aware of somebut they do not symbolize happiness forThe story is losely based on events inkind of superiority in her.The arrival ofner. It reminds her of her terrible mar-Lawrence's owm family. His patermal uncle,hergarrulous notner-tn-- in-law, who alsoriage and her drunken husband. And it'sJames Lawrence, was killed in a miningspeaks a broader dialect, intensifies thischrysanthemums again that evening whenacident at Brinsley Colliery in 1880. He sense of class diference, and introduces a he is brought in from the mine, dead, andwas married to Mary Poll' Renshaw new kind of confict:the compettin be- laid out in the parlor. One of the menand they had three children, the last oftween wife and mother over the man.bringing in her husband's body acciden-whom was bom after her father' s death.When the husband' s dead body istally knocks over the vase of chrysanthe-They lived in a cottage between the roadbrought to the house the story moves intomums she had put there earlier in theand the railway line at Brinsley, and it isan entirely new register. Firstly, there areevening -- the ones that reminded her s0in a fictional rereation of this cottage thatthe contrasted reactions of the mother andbitterly of the lost dreams of her life. Thethe action of the story takes place. Inthe wife, with the former speaking inchrysanthemums which opened her mar-much of his fiction Lawence changes the sentimental and chilike terms of the deadnames of places, but here Brinsley, Selstonman, while the latter is cooler and moreThe chrysanthemums, which bloom aand Underwood are crret named and concerned with the paticaltis of dealing Httet while in the fall and then die, arelocated, while the Lord Nelston wasareal with her husband' s body and loking symblic in this story of the fragility ofpub in Notingham Road.after her children. In the earliest surviv-our inner lives. Elizabeth Bates suddenlying version of the story, the reactions ofdiscovers that inside herself she is a person,2 Analysis on the Storythe mother and the wife are the muchwith unique thoughts and passions andImpesionistic and symbolic, dense withmore similar.The sight of her husband'fears; her husband was just as much of anfigurative language, D.H. Lawrence's "The s body resolves for Elizabeth the pastindividual as she, but one whom she neverOdour of Chrysanthemums" relies heavily conflicts between them, and she is almost really sought to know beneath the surface.on imagery (such as the chrysanthemums, grateful that he has come home dead rather Their marriage had been dead long beforeand the frequent altercation of darkness than drunk: "Think how he might have her husband lost his life that night in theand light) for effect.come home - - - not white and beautiful,mine. In the end, even the vase of lowersAt the opening paragraphs, every detailgently smiling ... (but) .. (u)gly, befouled，is clumsily knocked onto the floor, lcavingcontributes to the atmosphere of eveningwith hateful words on an evil breath,nothing tangible behind, just an odour.in late autumn, at the same time as antid-reek with disgust. She loved him so muchThe chrysanthemums symbolize a spot ofpating the events of the story. There isa now; her lifte was mended again, and herbeauty unrecognized by the myopicstrong sense of the confict between nature faith looked up with a smile he had come Elizabeth, just as she never appreciatedand industry: the woman finds herselfhome to her, beautiful" .what she could have had with Walter until"insignificantly trapped" by the engine,In the final version of the story,it was too late.while the flames of the pit-bank are seenhowever, this sense of reconciliation andas."red sores", as if the countryside ifbeauty is replaced by something much lessReferencesblighted by the mine.positive and much more powerful. The[1] Anne Fernihough. The CambridgeThe sense of menace thus created is key words and phrases suggest distanceCompanion to D. H. Lawrence. Shang -carried into the next section of the story，and lack of understanding:‘ apart" ，hai Foreign Language Education Press.where Lawrence builds up tension as the "alien" ，islaed”，"they had met in the2003.family anxiously awaits the father 's retum.dark". Elizabeth feles that "her soul was [2] Con Coroneos & Trudi Tate Lawrence'We gradully become aware not only oftom from her body" as for the first timeTales. Shanghai Foreign Language Edu-Mrs. Bates' s genuine fears about herhe honestly confronts the rehusband's safety, but also her rentmentrelationship with her husband a中国煤化工met on The odoutowards him and the way in which she stand that their sexual meetingsf YHCN M H Gms. 196.draws her bewildered children in to the those of "two isolated beings" and' unat T41 muag oluaul u. H. Lawrence's Ma-battle between them, for instance by as-they have constantly denied each other 'jor Works. Cambridge. 1991.-219-