In "Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier, how does Lizabeth's perspective change?

In "Marigolds," the reader meets Lizabeth at two points in her life, as an adult and years earlier as an adolescent. The adult woman clearly expresses how she reflects on the events concerning the marigolds. The young Lizabeth also shows some changes in perspective.
The grown woman generally provides a "frame": she establishes the surrounding structure in which the main story unfolds. At the beginning and end, the change in perspective from child to adult is revealed. At the beginning, she tells the reader she will be talking about the past. At the end, she explains that she gained compassion that day. She also expresses this, literally and metaphorically, saying, "I too have planted marigolds."
In the earlier-period reminiscence, Lizabeth shows the change in relationship to Miss Lottie and to her own parents.
Lizabeth feels torn between childhood and maturity. When she goes to Miss Lottie's home, she not only acts childishly, but she also regresses to juvenile behavior. Her outburst, "Old witch! Old witch!" shows her acting younger than her age.
When Lizabeth returns home after the name-calling incident, she overhears her parents talking. They are so worried about money that her father starts to cry. Hearing this brings about a change that she at first does not understand. She is shaken up because she has never heard her father cry before and did not know it was even possible for men.
Unable to process this new view, she expresses her emotions as anger and then takes out her rage on Miss Lottie's flowers. She angrily rips out the marigolds.
The biggest change comes when Miss Lottie confronts her but treats her kindly. "Why?" is her question. It is her sad face more than her words that inspires the change in Lizabeth. She begins to understand why anyone would put in so much work to bring beauty into their drab, dusty world.
This change was probably permanent. At least we know at the end that she still retains the knowledge about why beauty matters. As an adult she also fully understands why a parent would cry. Planting marigolds is her expression of those changed perspectives.