Elizabeth Bates anxiously awaits the return of her drunkard husband Walter. When he doesn't come home for dinner, she goes out searching for him with help. They discover he died in an accident at the mine from suffocation. Her marriage had been unhappy and loveless. The story explores themes of industrialization's impacts, the fragility of life, and the failures of Elizabeth's marriage.

1. D.H. Lawrence
(1885-1930)
Marcia Regina Vitor Santos
Vinícius Sampaio Silva

2. • D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930),
English novelist, storywriter,
critic, poet and painter, one of
the greatest figures in 20th-
century English literature.
"Snake" and "How Beastly the
Bourgeoisie is" are probably
his most anthologized poems.

3. David Herbert Lawrence
• Born on September 11, 1885, in Eastwood,
Nottinghamshire, central England.
• The fourth child of a struggling coal miner, a heavy
drinker. Mother: a former schoolteacher, greatly superior
in education to her husband. Lawrence's childhood was
dominated by poverty and friction between his parents.
• Educated at Nottingham High School, to which he had
won a scholarship.
• Worked as a clerk in a surgical appliance factory and
then for four years as a pupil-teacher.
• After studies at Nottingham University, Lawrence
matriculated at 22 and briefly pursued a teaching career.
• Lawrence's mother died in 1910; he helped her die by
giving her an overdose of sleeping medicine.

4. Childhood
Please note that
As a child, he hated physical Eastwood was widely
games like football or cricket open to the neighbouring
and preferred the quiet countryside as shown by
company of little girls. Indeed, this photograph.
he suffered bad moments at
Beauvale School...

5. ...where he was found girlish
by his schoolmates.

6. Achievement
Romance: Jessie Chambers
Lawrence also received a good religious education which
gave him a thorough knowledge of the Bible.
Congregationalism was the religion of his family, or
rather of his mother.At the age of 12 he won a
scholarship to Nottingham High School ; and this meant
:- long days from 7am to 7pm,- financial difficulties for
Mrs Lawrence (but her ambition for her son was such
that she was prepared to make great sacrifices)- rather
good results at school, but nothing exceptional. In the
summer 1901, Bert met Jessie Chambers, the daughter
of a nearby farmer...

7. Mrs Frieda Weekley
In Sept. 1906 D.H. Lawrence was 21:

11. “Odour of Chrysanthemums”
One of D. H. Lawrence’s most accomplished stories,
written in 1909.
-- A dramatic moment in the life of Mrs.
Elizabeth Bates and the death of her
husband, Walter Bates.
-- Lawrence presents his parents’
marriage in the story

12. Characters (1)
John
Elizabeth Bates -Elizabeth Bates' son
- a Housewife -a small, sturdy boy of five
- a tall woman of - “nasty,” like destroying flowers
imperious mien -indifferent to all but himself
Annie
- a handsome woman
- Elizabeth Bates' daughter
with definite black
- a naïve girl
eyebrows
-a schoolgirl with curly hair that
- a pregnant woman. is different from her father’s
blonde color

13. Characters (2)
Elizabeth Bates' mother-in-law
-an elderly woman about sixty years old
-Walter’s social superior, a teacher who was keen to
develop the talents of her children.
Walter
-Elizabeth Bates’ husband
- a miner who is a drunker
- blond, full-fleshed, with fine limbs
-died for suffocation

14. Summary
• Part 1- In a winter day, Elizabeth Bates, a
coal miner's wife, waited anxiously
for her husband to return for dinner.
Her husband didn’t come home.
• Part 2- Elizabeth looked for her husband, and
her mother-in-law came. Her husband
was killed accidentally that he died of
suffocation.

15. 4:30- Elizabeth and her son, John, waited the father’s
coming to begin tea.
4:45- Elizabeth’s daughter, Annie, came home late, and they sat
down to tea.
5:40- Elizabeth complained her husband’s drunk behavior.
6:40- Children went to bed. Elizabeth concerned for the father’s
safety but still felt angry.
8:00-Elizabeth went out and looked for her
husband. John Rigley helped her look for her husband.
9:00~
9:30-She sat and waited in the house. She felt uneasy.
9:45- Her mother-in-law came.
10:30- Matthews and Jim carried Walter's corpse into the
parlor. Elizabeth washed the body with her mother-in-law.
They put clothes on him and locked the parlor's door.

16. Some Symbols
Reading the text, it’s possible to identify some symbols
that represents the main ideas around Elizabeth:
Chrysanthemums: representing the sweet beginning of
Elizabeth’s marriage as well as the pale colour in
which her marriage had become;
Darkness: the word darkness in some parts of the
writing brings the idea of disappointment and
loneliness to which Elizabeth was subjected. She
had an unhappy life beside her drunk husband,
who’s suffocated to die;
The broken vase: represents the end of the marriage.

17. Theme
A. Industrial Revolution
-Industrial blight against nature beauty
B. Life and death
-The chrysanthemums, which bloom a little while in the
fall and then die, are symbolic of the fragility of the inner
lives.
C. Marriage.
-Their marriage had been dead before her
husband lost his life that night in the mine.
-Elizabeth never appreciated what she could have had
with Walter.