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odour Their daughter--coming home from school in the late evening light. Note how the young girl almost notices her mother's pregnancy, but instead draws attention to the flowers stuck in her mother's apron. To the daughter's statement that the chrysanthemums smell beautiful, the mother replies, "No. Not to me. It was chrysanthemums when I married him, and chrysanthemums when you were born, and the first time they ever brought him home drunk, he'd got chrysanthemums in his buttonhole" (Lawrence 1806).feeli