Marigolds (short story)
What does the reader learn about the background and setting of the story from the first four paragraphs of the text?
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The reader learns of the impoverished background that the narrator comes from juxtaposed with the marigolds.
I remember only the dry September of the dirt roads and grassless yards of the shantytown where I lived. And one other thing I remember, another incongruency of memory—a brilliant splash of sunny yellow against the dust—Miss Lottie’s marigolds.