This story is developed in an African-American community
, a rural community
in the 1930s
Explanation:
One of the characteristics of this time was the racial segregation, the limit of oportunities —and the poverty. Here, there is an exam`ple of the social situation of that time: "In those days everybody we knew was just as hungry and ill-clad as we were. Poverty was the cage in which we all were trapped..."
The setting of "Marigolds" is during the depression or the 30s. You know this because the story says, "The depression that gripped the nation was no new thing to us" and "the black workers of rural Maryland had always been depressed".
