Marigolds (short story)

What does the reader learn about the background and setting of the story from the first four paragraphs of the text?

What does the reader learn about the background and setting of the story from the first four paragraphs of the text?

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In the opening paragraphs, we learn that the short-story, Marigolds, is set during the Great Depression in rural Maryland. The month is September, and the area in which the narrator lives is impoverished... and the landscape is filled with dust.

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Marigolds