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Marigolds. Quotes About the Setting. When I think of the hometown of my youth, all that I seem to remember is dust—the brown, crumbly dust of late summer—arid, sterile dust that gets into the eyes and makes them water, gets into the throat and between the toes of bare brown feet.
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"Marigolds" is a 1969 short story by Eugenia Collier. The story draws from Collier's early life in rural Maryland during the Great Depression. Its themes include poverty, maturity and the relationship between innocence and compassion. [1]
The events before this moment prepare readers for the contrast between the innocent girl that Lizabeth is as “Marigolds” begins and the compassionate woman she begins to become by the story’s end. Her summer is full of days of “formlessness”: other than a few chores, nothing is required of her.
One summer, when Lizabeth is fourteen, the children decide to go throw stones at Miss Lottie’s marigolds. Miss Lottie is an old woman who lives in a ramshackle building with her disabled son, John Burke. The children scamper over to Miss Lottie’s house and decapitate a few marigolds.
By Eugenia W. Collier When I think of the hometown of my youth, all that I seem to remember is dust—the brown, crumbly dust of late summer—arid, sterile dust that gets into the eyes and makes them water, gets into the throat and between the toes of bare brown feet. I don’t know why I should remember only the dust. Surely there
