Beauty In Marigolds By Eugenia W. Collier

The theme of Marigolds by Eugenia W. Collier is that beauty is really how you see it since everything is beautiful in its own way. Lizabeth the main character in Marigolds realizes the beauty the marigolds represented like Miss.Lottie because toward the end of the story she says “And I too have planted marigolds”(Collier 148). Lizabeth view changed after she destroyed the garden because she become aware of what she has done to the flowers and the beauty she destroyed when she said “Then I was sitting in the ruined little garden among the uprooted and ruin flowers, crying and crying and it was too late to undo what I had done”(Collier 148). She finally understands Miss.Lottie view of the marigolds and how they represented a little bit of happiness