Marigolds In the story Marigolds written by Eugenia Coller, a girl named Lizabeth lost her innocence at the age of fifteen. She was living in the great depression, and was in poverty. Lizabeth is unware of this until she witnesses the hardships of her family, takes her anger off something so beautiful, and mistakes what she’d done by doing something so childish. Lizabeth feels sad, angry, ignorant and mature at this point of time as she steps away from childhood into womanhood. Lizabeth wakes up one late night when her mother returns, she listens as her father's voice cuts through her mother's voice as he argues about how hard it is to get a good paying job. He starts to sob loudly, painfully, and hopelessly as Lizabeth’s mother hums and comforts him. She’d never seen her father so upset before but as soon as she witnesses, she has now realized how poor she is. She now feels upset, hopeless, and angered by her father’s actions. …show more content…
Joey starts to ask questions but is easily ignored as Lizabeth picks up her speed silently and furiously. She heads towards Miss Lottie’s yard as her emotions swell from the thoughts of last summer, and the hopelessness of her poverty. Angered by being neither child nor woman, all the emotions that she held in were joined into one with total rage. She leaps furiously on the beautiful Marigolds, aggressively pulling and trampling them as Joey yells at her to stop. Joey tells her to look up, as he sees Miss