Answer:The speaker describes the flowers as beautiful but also describes them as caged and plucked by people. He knows that they're the preferred option, but he'd rather be free as a weed than be wanted as a flower.
Explanation:
The flower and the weed symbolize two different lives and ways of being treated the speaker could choose, but he'd rather be free and alone than have a life a certain way.
Maggie is shy and doesn't have much confidence at this point of the story.
Answer:
"With a bald spot in the middle of my hair—" and "They will say: “How his hair is growing thin!”
Explanation:
The lines that indicate that the speaker is concerned about what others think of him are: "With a bald spot in the middle of my hair—" and "They will say: “How his hair is growing thin!”
I don’t know the context of this but: we must choose ourselves because if we are trying to be someone else our whole life then we won’t get very far and people won’t like us for ourselves.
