Marigolds (short story)
What does the reader learn about the background and setting of the story from the first four paragraphs of the text?
CER
![](https://d22o6al7s0pvzr.cloudfront.net/images/bookrags/qa/avatars/.defaults/unknown.png)
Asked by
Kk26
Last updated by
chrisrozell
CER
We learn that it is a small place that is poor. It is hot and dusty and dishevelled. When I think of the hometown of my youth, all that I seem to remember is dust—the brown, crumbly dust of late summer—
Lizabeth grew up in rural Maryland. The whole town was a picture of poverty and dust.