My interpertation of the Flower Garden

The Flower Garden by Shirley Jackson, is about a woman named Mrs. MacLane who moves into a town where everybody is friendly. But, not friendly enough, because when Mrs. MacLane hired black people to work in her garden the people of the town expressed feeling’s of hatred towards her. It gets to the point when Mrs. MacLane and her son have to leave the once friendly town.

 All Mrs. MacLane wanted to do was help make an impact on someone else’s life that was in need. Mrs. Winnings was friends with Mrs. MacLane and had the chance to help stand up for Mrs. MacLane, because she made an impact on the black gardeners lives by hiring them. She then gave them a place to stay, but in order to keep her image she blew her chance. Mrs. MacLane let the people get under her skin and Mrs. MacLane then left the town because she felt too much hatred towards her.  This book has a connection with the book I am currently reading Black &White. The character black took the blame for something white did and now black is going to have to go to jail and serve time for what white did.

During the time of the story we sadly got to know the full round character of Mrs. Winnings. In the beginning of the book Mrs. Winnings was a great lady, always caring for her family and friends, but at the end of the book her reputation was too big to stand up for Mrs. MacLane. After the event of Mrs. MacLane hiring the gardeners her second to last friend let her go, Ms. Winnings. In the passage it says, “Mrs. MacLane and Mr. Jones both turned, and Mrs. MacLane waved and called out, “Hello!” Mrs. Winning swung around without speaking and started, with great dignity, back up the hill toward the old Winning house. This parts show the mean streak inside of her. Due to Mrs. MacLane’s feelings for people in need Mrs. Winning’s couldn’t hang out with her because she hang out with “different” people.