Eugenia Collier, a well known writer used several literary devices such as juxta position, diction, imagery, point of view, and flashback to create the voice of narrator Lizabeth from the short story Marigolds. The point of view the author was trying to express was extremely clear using statements like “Bewilderment of being neither woman or child.”(Collier) to show that the narrator is a teen going through the rough phases that come with coming of age. Quotes of this story, like this one, show that it is a flashback from an older woman remembering her childhood during rough times in the thirties. Other pieces of the story show imagery that reflects and bends the reader’s imagination to show a picture. A clear example of this would be the imagery
