Question

In lines 8-9. Collier writes that an abstract painting "does not present things as they are, but rather as they feel." What can you infer about the narrator's childhood experiences based on her description of her home town?Collier writes that an abstract painting "does not present things as they are, but rather as they feel." What can you infer about the narrator's childhood experiences based on her description of her home town? This question is from Marigold by Eugenia Collier.

Answer 1

It seems that the line states that the narrator had a not so good childhood and that she only remembers the dullest portions of her life. It is because of the way she described the feeling that she had with the things she had seen when she was young. Instead of thinking happy memories, she only remembered the odd ones. She thought that time and that place and remembered only the dry and dirty roads and grassless yards of the shantytown where she lived.