Answer:
b) He is a proud man who does not want to accept help from other people.
Explanation:
In Eugenia Collier's short story "Marigolds", the themes of racial discrimination and more importantly, the growth or"breaking of innocence" is dealt the most. The African American family of the narrator Lizabeth and her experience with innocence while trying to ruin Miss Lottie's marigolds.
One late night, she had woken up from her sleep and had heard her parents discussing about somethings. It was the her father's voice that she said "shattered the peace". Her father had exclaimed that it's been "Twenty-two years, Maybelle, twenty-two years, and I got nothing for you, nothing, nothing". And when his wife tried to calm him down and told him that Mrs. Ellis will be giving him her husband's old coat for the winter, he said "Da mn Mr. Ellis’s coat! And da mn his money! You think I want white folks’ leavings?"
His refusal to accept things from others, especially white folks, and his anguish at not being able t be the provider of the house is understandable but it also shows his pride and refusal to get/ask for help from others.
