In Eugenia W. Collier's "Marigolds", Lizabeth struggles with the emotional transition from childhood to adulthood as she starts feeling torn about her identity as either a child or an adult. The narrator feels that "the child inside [her] [sulks] and [says] it [is] all fun and games" while at the same time "the woman in [her] [flinches] at the malicious attack [she] [led]" on Miss Lottie's marigolds (Collier 86). Even though she would enjoy throwing stones when she was younger, Lizabeth feels conflicted because of things that she normally enjoys now make her feel ashamed of herself. Feeling insecure, she starts to bottle up all of her emotions of figuring out who she is. Lizabeth also feels isolated as "all the smoldering emotions of that summer