The story “Marigolds” by Eugenia W. Collier is a coming of age short story. The narrator's tone of voice is Remorseful. “Poverty was the cage in which we were all trapped, and our hatred of it was still the vague, undirected restlessness of the zoo-bred flamingo who knows that nature created him to fly free.” This sentence is saying they feel trapped, and they cannot be free like a bird locked up at the zoo. “... a feeling that something old and familiar was ending, and something unknown and therefore terrifying was beginning.” Lizabeth was worried things were changing fast, and she’s scared of what could be coming in the future. In the way she explains her childhood she feels trapped. She does not want to go out and se what the real