In my opinon, Lizabeth became the person shw was as an adult because of her choice to launch an attack on Miss Lotties marigolds and the events caused by that choice. When Miss Lottie was first introduced to us Lizabeth gave us some background information onher, but Miss Lottie was just an old lady that lizabeth and her friends would torment, this is best supported by when she said "we had to annoy her by whizzing a pebble into her flowers or by yelling a dirty word, then dancing away from her rage" but at the time Lizabeth was so obliv9ious to how much of a impact Miss Lottie is going to have on her, but we can see this take effect on Lizabeth when she is an adult, she says that "for ones \ does not have to be ignorant and poor to find that
