The fog is a minor symbol in the initial setting and is described as a lid for “on every side… it made the great valley a closed vessel” ( ). Women have a limit in their roles. They can't do the things men are taught to do. Although Elisa's husband has seen that she is strong and has a gift for gardening, he still does not allow her to work with him. The idea of ​​rigid gender roles is represented, where the man does a manly job while the woman stays and is a delicate housewife (Erden-Imamoglu). Chrysanthemums symbolize two parts of Elisa: her femininity and her maternal instinct. As previously mentioned, when the tinker expresses interest in her flowers, she opens them to him by removing the clothes that hid her delicacy as a woman and shows “her pretty dark hair” ( ). The masculinity he initially possessed has disappeared. Furthermore, the way she takes care of her flowers is the same as a mother would do for her children. For his flowers he ensures that “there were no aphids, no sows, no snails, no cut worms” ( ). All things that could potentially harm her plants, her children, have been removed. Women like to feel beautiful; however, it takes verbal gestures from their partner or someone who cares, to allow them to get to that point. They also possess natural maternal instincts, although some will never be able to have children of their own