Choose two characters who are foils for each other. Explain how you know they are foils and what the author achieved by creating them

  In the story “Marigolds” by Eugenia W.Collier Lizzabeth, the main character, and Miss Lottie are foils for each other. You know they're foils because when they "contrast" with each other. Since the beginning of the story, Lizzabeth was always talking bad about Miss Lottie, though as far as we knew, she hadn't done anything wrong. As the story progresses you learn that the one nice thing Miss Lottie has is her marigolds (hence the name of the book). When Lizzabeth destroys the marigolds, she's also hurting Miss Lottie by doing it. In the beginning of the book, as well, Lizzabeth goes and starts throwing rocks at Miss Lottie's marigolds, showing more conflict between them. Slightly after that, Lizzabeth starts dancing in circles around Miss Lottie, while she starts crying and calling for her son the help. She then tries to strike Lizzabeth over the head with her cane. Well sure that happened but some may still argue that Lizzabeth's little brother and MIss Lottie are the foils because of how he treated her, but Lizzabeth ended up doing more wrong than he did. He threw rocks at her marigolds but for the most part that was all. Even when Lizzabeth was tearing up Miss Lottie's garden, he tried to stop her. Her brother felt bad about she was doing, when she didn't. Overall, Lizzabeth and Miss Lottie seem more like the foils of the story.