How is Lizabeth affected by her relationship with her parents in "Marigolds"?

During the time Lizbeth grows up she doesn't care about the society outside her community but with time she doesn't have the will to play childish games anymore and starts to realize that she is becoming a woman.

Nevertheless, all her structure growing up is based in that her father is the rock of the family, the one who provides and takes care of her and her mother.

When Lizbeth listens to a conversation between her mother and her father and sees her father crying because he is unemployed - remember the book is placed during the great depression - she realizes that all she believed in all her life is not real. There is no space anymore for innocence now.

At that moment she realizes that "her childhood faded and her womanhood begun".