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What does the color gray and the dust represent in the story?

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What does the color gray and the dust represent in the story?Which excerpt from “Marigolds” best illustrates an explicit example of setting?

I remember only the dry September of the dirt roads and grassless yards of the shantytown where I lived.

I feel again the chaotic emotions of adolescence, illusive as smoke.

“Hey, Lizabeth,” Joey yelled. He never talked when he could yell. “Hey, Lizabeth, let’s go somewhere.”

The years have taken me worlds away from that time and that place.

1) The color gray and the dust represent sadness and poverty in the story.

2) I remember only the dry September of the dirt roads and grassless yards of the shantytown where I lived.

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The color gray and the dust represent sadness and poverty in the plot and the setting of the story. The “time” of the “Marigolds” best illustrates an explicit example of setting.

It is a setting of “time” because in the excerpt it says: “I remember only the dry September of the dirt roads and grass less yards of the shantytown where I lived. I feel again the chaotic emotions of adolescence, illusive as smoke.” And the sadness and poverty are represented by the color gray and the dust.

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