“The Smell of Chrysanthemums,” by DH Lawrence, tells the story of a woman named Elizabeth Bates, married to a man who works in the mines. The couple has two children and are expecting their third child. There are many problems between them. The Bates family lives in poverty. The house where they live has no electricity and needs to be lit with torches. One night Mrs. Bates waits for her husband to come home from work to serve dinner, but he never shows up. He thinks that maybe he will be drinking with his friends, and that maybe his friends will bring him home drunk as usual. Time passes and Mrs. Bates has heard nothing from him. Later that night her mother-in-law arrives crying, then she begins to suspect that something bad has happened and that her husband is dead. The central idea of ​​liberation is expressed when the writer uses three elements of fiction to tell the story. The setting used by Lawrence is physical. The story is set in a community called Brinsley Colliery. Brinsley Colliery is a mining community: "The miners were brought in... The engine whistled as it entered the wide bay of the railway lines beside the colliery, where rows of lorries stood in the harbour" (798). Elizabeth leaves the house and watches the miners pass along the train tracks, but does not see her husband among them. The setting is very important to the story because it allows the reader to identify the place where the story takes place. The city is full of miners: “The miners, individually, in queues and in groups, passed like diverging shadows towards home” (798). The miners are returning home after a hard day's work. The writer uses a third-person limited omniscient point of view to tell the story. The author can read through the mind of Elizabeth Bates and therefore...... in the center of the paper...... a symbol. Mrs. Bates is aware that she and her husband are separated by death: “Now that he was dead, she knew how eternally separated he was from her, how eternally he no longer had anything to do with her. She saw this episode of her life closed” (811). Mrs. Bates believes that her husband's death symbolizes the end of their marriage, and also the end of a chapter in her life. Lawrence uses liberation as a central idea to write the story. The three fictional elements used by the author facilitate the reader to recognize the unfulfilled life that Mrs. Bates is leaving with her husband. However, the reader can also appreciate how Mrs. Bates continues to respect him, regardless of the circumstances; one reason is because he is the father of her children. She also identifies how her husband is no longer part of their life, because they are living people and he is not.