“Because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’s why”
The Three Rhetorical Appeals are the main strategies used to persuade an audience and are also important devices to understand when constructing or deconstructing an argument.
Chrysanthemums are symbol of life and beauty. In the story it symbolizes energy and sexuality. The same happens with Elisa. She lives a boring life and an unhappy marriage and she needs attendance. She needs to find herself. She commits to gardening because it is there where she can find her true self. Both, Elisa and the Chrysanthemums, need love.