My group never got to present on tuesday so I figured I would outline a little of what we talked about here. We focused on pages 104 and 105. The plants were living in a "false paradise" (104). We drew connections between the garden of Eden and the paradise. All that is left is the "aroma of a rotting world" (104). The granddaughter of the women who planted the flowers "volunteer[s] her time in the hope of restoring the flowers" (105), but it is hopeless. Unlike the boys who want to save the girls, but never try, the granddaughter tries to save the flowers, but knows it is hopeless. The girls resemble the flowers in many ways, they are both described as falling apart and disheveled, and Muffie Perry could smell the "odor of the girls' grief "(105).
I also recognized that the false paradise they live in is their own. The parents created a myth for themselves (perfect houses, lawns, and families), but they don't even believe in it. Their whole lives are an illusion which brought me back to the line, "we realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in, and that for all their care taking and bitching about crabgrass they didn't give a damn about lawns" (52).
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