Yes, thank you, i’ve had a rlly rough year
The correct answer of the given question above would be the third option: RURAL MARYLAND, DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION. From the context of the story, the setting of "Marigolds" is during the great depression in rural Maryland. "Marigolds" introduces the theme of poverty. This is written in 1969 by Eugenia Collier.
"Through the Tunnel" is a short story written by British author Doris Lessing, originally published in the American weekly magazine The New Yorker in 1955.
The story tells the adventures of Jerry, a young English boy, and his widowed mother who are on a vacation at a beach to which they have come many times in the past. Jerry and his mother try to please each other and not to impose too many demands. The mother is “determined to be neither possessive nor lacking in devotion,” and Jerry, in turn, acts from an “unfailing impulse of contrition — a sort of nobility.”
<u>In "Through the Tunnel", the actual passage through the rock tunnel becomes a coming-of-age passage for Jerry. Having accomplished his challenge, he returns to his mother's company, satisfied and confident of the future.</u> He does not feel it necessary to tell his mother of the monumental obstacle that he has overcome.
The tunnel in the story can best be said to be symbolic of the:
obstacles in life that lead to maturity
The woman is in the middle of the woods at night. She is wearing a white shiny cloack, maning she is important in her society, and she carries a vase meaning she is completeing a ritual or an important daily task.