If I Was A Man

Why do woman and men just assume things about each other? Men have yet to figure out women and women have yet to figure out men. In the story “The Chrysanthemums”, Henry has no clue that his wife is unhappy and needs some excitement in her life. When Henry states “I don’t think you’d like it” when he is discussing whether or not Elisa would want to go to the fight, He needs to think about the fact that if she is asking about it maybe she has some interest in it or that she just wants to do something different. The fact that he is taking her to a nice dinner is sweet but that’s not exciting if it’s the millionth time they have done that. Relationships need new things to do or they tend to get boring after a while. Putting all the blame on Henry isn’t fair though because Elisa hides the fact that she is upset about everything in the end when it says “She turned her coat collar so he could not see that she was crying weakly—like an old woman.”.  This is kind of sad that she conceals the pain that she is feeling. The thing that Elisa needs to be ashamed of though is the fact that she was going to cheat on her husband with this man that wants to fix her pots and things. The man may have been able to fix many things but Henry and Elisa’s marriage wasn’t one of those things and he was a “true man” to be able to turn Elisa down after she was lusting for him. Cheating is not the way to solve an unhappy marriage. Elisa should really open up to her husband more and let him know that excitement needs to be restored in their marriage so they can stay together and be faithful.