SETTING OF MARIGOLDSBy Eugenia Collier

What is Setting?

• Setting includes to place, weather, time of day and time period.

• It can also include details about characters customs and background information.

Some important details about setting in the story

• The family lives in a poor and ugly neighborhood of Maryland.

• The father of Lizabeth lost his job and all the biggest brothers of Lizabeth are in the city or are married.

• Now the family lives only with the money that the mother earn and they have to give the little children to familiars because they can’t take care of them.

Influence of setting

• One of the principal influences is that the story took place in the time of Great Depression.

• The family of Lizabeth lived in the poor neighborhood and they were especially affected by the crisis.

The Mood in MARIGOLDS

• In the beginning of the story the mood is nostalgic as Lizabethsays, “I feel again the chaotic emotions of adolescence, illusive as smoke”

• In the middle and at the end of the story the mood is full of sadness and repentance for the destruction of Miss. Lottie’s marigolds.

The foreshadows of the story

• We understand that Lizabeth is going to lose her innocence when she says, “Something old and familiar was ending, and something unknown and therefore terrifying was beginning”

Conclusion

• The story takes place in a poor neighborhood of Maryland.

• This influences the story because Lizabeth is becoming a woman and she doesn’t want to live in poverty all her life.