Both stories illustrate different sides of love. In "The Gilded Six-bits," we are introduced to a very happy couple in love. This is reflected in the descriptions of May and Joe's yard and house. For example, we are told that there is something "happy about the place" (Hurston 1545). The flowers in the yard

Things are not always what they appear to be. May realizes the reason why Slemmons prohibited anyone "to touch his gold" (Hurston 1551) was because it was not real. This lesson is powerful because she learns that from afar, how things appear can be deceiving. Like Slemmons, the gold looked much different upon closer inspection. What May and Joe thought they wanted was fake from the very beginning. In "Odour of Chrysanthemums," it takes her husband's death for Lizzie to actually understand love and life. As Lizzie stares at her dead husband's corpse, she suddenly knows that they were never husband and wife. We read that she "knew what a stranger he was to her . . . Was this what it all that meant--utter, intact separateness, obscured by the heat of living?" (Lawrence 316). The man she thought she knew turned out to be someone she did not recognize. What Lizzie thought she had w

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