Lizabeth's Character In 'Marigolds' By Eugenia Collier

“Marigolds” is a story by Eugenia Collier that starts out with the characters Lizabeth and Joey. The passage is about Lizabeth and her need to realize the meaning to grow up. She takes her anger out on someone else. Lizabeth understands she’s acting like a child when she was destroying Miss Lottie’s flowers. She changes that by becoming aware of why Miss Lottie’s plants her marigolds. At first, Lizabeth is immature. She expresses it by agreeing with her younger brother that they should annoy Miss Lottie as the two throw pebbles at her marigolds. Lizabeth says to her brother, “Y’all children get the stones; I’ll show you how to use them.” She says that quote when they see Miss Lottie in her garden. Instead of being mature, she acts like