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Of what significance to Elisa is the sight of the contents of the flower potdiscarded in the road? Notice that, as her husbands car overtakes the covered wagon, Elisa averts her eyes; and then Steinbeck adds, In a moment it was over. The thing was done. She did not look back (paragraph 111). Explain this passage.
 
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  • This is one of the saddest moments in the story. We already suspectalthough Elisa does notthat the traveling repairman assumed an interest in the chrysanthemums in order to make a sale. But now we, like Elisa, know this to be true when she sees the dark spot from a long distance away. It is even more hurtful when Eliza realizes that he has thrown her cherished seeds on the side of the road but kept the pot.



Perhaps her desire to not look back is a new-found determination to make the most of her life as it is, rather than dreaming about the way it could be. Perhaps this reveals a depth of pain so deep that she cannot bear to look at the destroyed seeds. Either way, in the sight of the flower pots contents discarded in the road, Elisa sees the end of her brief interlude of hopes, passions, and dreams.
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