Look again at how the flower girl is initially described: She sits down on the plinth of the column, sorting her flowers, on the lady's right. She is not at
all an attractive person. She is all an attractive person. She is perhaps eighteen, perhaps twenty,
hardly older. She wears a little sailor hat of black straw that has long been exposed to the dust
and soot of London and has seldom if ever been brushed. Her hair needs washing rather badly:
its mousy color can hardly be natural. She wears a shoddy black coat that reaches nearly to her
knees and is shaped to her waist. She has a brown skirt with a coarse apron. Her boots are
much the worse for wear. She is no doubt as clean as she can afford to be; but compared to the
ladies she is very dirty. Her features are no worse than theirs; but their condition leaves
something to be desired; and she needs the services of a dentist.
What is the effect of having the flower girl look like this?
This visual would make the audience feel disgust for the flower girl
This visual would make the audience feel pity for the flower girl.
This visual would make the audience see humor in how the flower girl is portrayed.