In “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier, the marigolds represent hope to Miss Lottie. First, Miss Lottie sees the kids destroying her flowers she gets very upset and enraged. “She shook her stick at us and started shakily toward the road crying” (146). After her flowers were destroyed, she had nothing else to do besides cry. These marigolds meant a lot to her and her flowers were destroyed right in front of her eyes. Second, Miss Lottie took very good care of her flowers and kept them in really good condition. “We crept to the edge of the bushes that bordered the narrow road in front of Miss Lottie’s place. She was working placidly, kneeling over the flowers,” (146). She was working on her flowers before the attack on them since it was one
