Marigolds (short story)

In Marigolds story by Eugenia Collier, How does this represent poverty?

"I said before that we children were not consciously aware of how thick were the bars of our cage. I wonder now, though, whether we were not more aware of it than I thought. Perhaps we had some dim notion of what we were, and how little chance we had of being anything else. Otherwise, why would we have been so preoccupied with destruction?"

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In context, Lizabeth is referring to the seeming hopelessness of the children's situation. They aren't particularly aware of what they lack, but they are also unaware that things can be different. The children have no hopes and dreams, and they have no aspirations or opportunities, so they take their lack of direction and use it for negative pursuits instead of positive ones.

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