After the stranger leaves, Elisa C. gets dressed up and admires herself in the mirror.
In this story, "The Chrysanthemums" by John Steinbeck, Elisa is a married woman who practically stopped feeling beautiful and attractive. However, one day she is visited by this stranger selling flowers, and suddenly she felt the urge to be considered pretty and sex.y again, which is why she dressed up so as to feel like that again.