After the stranger leaves, Elisa C. gets dressed up and admires herself in the mirror.<span>
</span>In this story, "The Chrysanthemums" by John Steinbeck, Elisa is a married woman who practically stopped feeling beautiful and attractive. However, one day she is visited by this stranger selling flowers, and suddenly she felt the urge to be considered pretty and sex.y again, which is why she dressed up so as to feel like that again.
This question is rather old but I always make up a new answer when I scroll by it >w<
Animals can in fact understand us humans and other animals. They show this by reactin to us with body movements and sounds. I don’t believe that they understand our language, but they understand our tone of voice and behavior. Aka, why we are able to train animals :)
Something I’ve been wondering for years