约翰.斯坦贝克的短篇小说《菊花》塑造了一个期待进入男性为主体的社会、渴望自由平等但始终无法实现梦想的女性形象。该文从意象图式的视角出发,分别从容器图式和始源—路径—目标图式等方面探析女主人公伊莉莎的渴求从萌芽到破灭的心路历程,揭示出当时许多女性生活压抑,渴望进入男性中心社会的愿望。 John Steinbeck’s short story Chrysanthemum shapes a female image that looks forward to entering masculine societies, longing for freedom and equality but never realizing a dream. From the perspective of pictorial schemata, this essay analyzes the process of the heroine Elisa’s craving from the sprout to the ebb and flow from the perspectives of the container schema and the origin-path-target schema, revealing that at that time many women were depressing, Desire to enter the male center of society.