Question

describe the setting of the story "marigolds" identify words and phrases that tell the time and place of the story

Answer 1

The setting of "Marigolds" is during the depression or the 30s. You know this because the story says, "The depression that gripped the nation was no new thing to us" and "the black workers of rural Maryland had always been depressed".

Answer 2

This story is developed in an African-American community , a rural community

in the 1930s

Step-by-step explanation:

One of the characteristics of this time was the racial segregation, the limit of oportunities —and the poverty. Here, there is an exam`ple of the social situation of that time: "In those days everybody we knew was just as hungry and ill-clad as we were. Poverty was the cage in which we all were trapped..."