"Chrysanthemums" and "The Girls in their Summer Dresses"

In "Chrysanthemums" the strange man in the wagon does not appear to be trustworthy. The way he just rides onto the families farm and will not leave until he fixes something for money. He keeps pushing the demand for something to fix and even makes up fictitious stories and pulls on the emotion that he will not be able to eat. In reality, he may not have even been lost. He is like a modern day door-to-door salesman who will not take no for an answer.

In "The Girls in their Summer Dresses" I feel the biggest conflict in the relationship is man versus self. It is somewhat of a man versus man conflict between the wife and husband as well as a possible man versus society where all of man falls victim to the same problem, but that is hard to say. The problem which leads to the other discords is essentially the man versus self conflict within Michael. He deals with the problem of being happily married, but wanting to be free and single again because of the vast array of good-looking women he sees everyday. The setting of the story could not be anywhere else unless it were another very large city such as Los Angeles or Chicago. The setting of millions of people and world-class shopping which attracts the women would not exist in a setting without a large city. Although time could change because for the majority of the twetieth century New York and other large cities have been this way.