Marigolds (short story)
The purpose of the figurative language at the end of paragraph 4 of the selection is to —
pupose if figuative language
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pupose if figuative language
Poverty was the cage in which we all were trapped, and our hatred of it was still the vague, undirected restlessness of the zoo-bred flamingo who knows that nature created him to fly free.
This is a metaphor for the imprisonment of poverty... an illustration of Lizabeth's inner conflict... her awareness of the situation she lives in, and the impulsivity of youth.
Marigolds