"It was only when she saw his naked grin that she gave a little yelp of surprise."
When Myop initially encounters the dead man, she doesn't realize what she is seeing—until she notices his rotting skull. The narrator, in the sentence quoted above, compares the empty expression of that skull with a "naked grin."
The Question and Answer section for The Flowers is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Through "The Flowers," Alice Walker portrays the condition of African-American people. Many of them, such as Myop and her family, are sharecroppers—in other words, they are paid a very small amount of money to engage in back-breaking labor on...
Do you mean the "rose"?
Sorry, this is only a short-answer space. The short story takes place in the South after Reconstruction.
