Marigolds (short story)
Craft and Structure: In the first paragraph, what two images does the narrator juxtapose for contrast?
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From the text:
I remember only the dry September of the dirt roads and grassless yards of the shantytown where I lived. And one other thing I remember, another incongruency of
memory—a brilliant splash of sunny yellow against the dust—Miss Lottie’s marigolds.
Marigolds