What is setting? Provide examples from the text.

Marigolds is set in a rural African-American community during the 1930s—the Great Depression, a time of racial segregation, poverty, and limited opportunities.

I remember only the dry September of the dirt roads and grassless yards of the shanty-town where I lived.

The Depression that gripped the nation was no new thing to us, for the black workers of rural Maryland had always been depressed. I don’t know what it was that we were waiting for; certainly not for the prosperity that was “just around the corner,”
for those were white folks’ words, which we never believed.