Summary In 'To Kill A Mockingbird And Marigolds'

The dreary and barren settings in which the Radley family and Miss Lottie live, in To Kill a Mockingbird and in “Marigolds”, greatly influence the myths and legends that perpetuate around them. The Radley place is an old and murky home, making it easy for their myth to emerge because of the mysteriousness associated with the family due to their household and the unordinary alleged actions of Boo Radley. The Radley myth revolves around Boo because he has not been seen in “15 years” and is suspected to be locked up in his house, “once white with a deep front porch and green shutters, but had long ago darkened to the color of the slate- gray yard around it,” and with, “rain-rotted shingles droop[ing],” (P2). The way that Scout describes the