The Lottery Rose Analysis

For the majority of The Lottery Rose, Georgie Burgess had absolute hatred for Molly Harper because when Georgie snuck out and planted his rosebush in her garden. The next day when she saw the rosebush and multiple bulbs out of the ground, she was furious and ripped the rosebush out of the soil it was in and threw it down onto the road. Mrs. Harper then proceeded to tell Georgie that if she ever saw him trying to plant his rosebush anywhere on her property she would rip it out of the fragile soil again, but throw it in the incinerator. This made George beyond angry at Mrs. Harper because that rosebush was his only friend/family and she just hurt and disrespected it.
This hatred went on and on until the school's drama class started to rehearse and also when Georgie realised that Robin might mean as much to her as he did to Georgie. Georgie had been working on his singing and acting, he even would listen to the drama class rehearse and Georgie, more cerebral than realized, eventually even had even memorized all of the lines for the play.
Collier had heard Georgie acting out the scenes in the playhouse, and said that he was great, and that he would talk to Mrs. Harper about him having a role in the play. This idea of being in a play made Georgie enthralled. Later Georgie was asked to play the Mad Hatter in the play by Mrs.Harper, and he than realized that he actually likes Mrs Harper, and he realized he doesn’t hate her and wonders why he did in the first place when she played the role of Alice, the other main role in the play, with Georgie because none of the boys wanted to do so. After the play Georgie did not talk to Mrs. Harper, and simply slipped out the back