Through symbolism, the short story "The Flowers" by Alice Walker addresses how racism has been a source of pain, suffering and discrimination during the 20th century. Although the author does not explicitly say that Myop is black, it is implied at the beginning of the story on her walk around her family's sharecropper cabin as she "clutched [the stick] in her dark brown hand" (Walker 119). Sharecropping was a common practice at the beginning of the 20th century within the African-American community and with the physical description of the young girl's hand it's reasonable to infer her and…