Answer:
On the day when the narrator's life changed, she had destroyed marigolds of Miss Lottie.
Explanation:
'Marigolds' is a short story written by Eugenia Collier. The story is about narrator's childhood, when she entered into womanhood from childhood, about the day when her life changed, meaning of life changed.
Elizabeth is a fourteen-year old young girl and narrator of the story. On the day when Lizabeth's life changed, she destroyed the garden of marigolds of Miss Lottie.
Lizabeth was furious over the small garden of marigolds that Miss Lottie has grown in her damped house. The garden of marigolds was the only thing of beauty to adore in the house of Miss Lottie, perhaps the only thing that gave Miss Lottie a ray of hope while liviing in a 'crumbling decayed house' with a menatlly disabled son.
This little garden of marigolds was an annoying thing for Lizabeth, so when one night when she heard her father cry, the hope of family, she destroyed marigolds garden of Miss Lottie in her fit of rage. Yet, Miss Lottie did not utter a word, she just stood with a sad, weary eyes. That was the day, when she looked at Miss Lottie, not as a witch but an old woman 'who dared to create beauty even in such a crumbling state.
It was this day when the narrator's life changed, she entered womanhood from childhood, she became more empathetic from being judgemental.
