Lizabeth In Eugenia Collier's Marigolds

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Lizabeth is Inside Out In Eugenia W. Collier’s “Marigolds”, Lizabeth experiences a challenging transition to adulthood because she is exposed to new emotions and behaviors. Lizabeth’s emotions came to her and hit her like a train and she “indeed lost [her] mind, for all the smoldering emotions of that summer swelled in [her] and burst” (Collier 87) because she now realizes there is more problems that she is blinded by such as with boredom in the beginning of the story. Lizabeth now recognizes that her parents have to resolve issues with avoiding poverty. Never hearing her strong and brave father cry before, she notices that his quitting of multiple jobs has him bringing no money or food home. Her adolescence truly shows after she “leaped furiously
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