What Does Beehives Symbolize Lily

Setting- The author of this novel uses minimal setting in the story. He uses setting to show where Lily is and what’s going around her. The story takes place in Sylvan, South Carolina and Tiburon, South Carolina. She keeps the details and doesn’t say much. Only thing she says about her town is the population and the local buildings.
Symbols- Beehives are a key symbol in the novel. They symbolize August pink house. Like humans bees work, live and produce the necessary honey for survival, that’s why they are symbolic. The Black Mary is another important symbol in the novel. Lily carries it around because it is one of the only objects she has of hers mothers. This shows a mother and mother surrogates. This symbol later leads to Lily meeting August.
Foreshadowing- At the beginning Lily is watching bees fly around the room. This part foreshadows Lily in interacting with the Boatwright in the August Bee farms.