Life Versus Death

This picture represents life and death. One flower is dead and the other is alive, obviously. There's a lot of death feelings in the play. Nanny walks around and is called the walking corpse. Beatrice makes her house to look like nothing interesting, she puts up papers so the outside world can't see in, there are papers on the floor, crap all over the place, and she kills Peter the rabbit. She also belittles her daughter and puts them down about everything, which kills their spirits and could have killed their drive to go on. Tillie is the one person in the family who can see life in objects and good in things. She plants the marigolds and makes wonderful creations, and in turn it wins her the Science fair.
Picture From: http://steelturman.typepad.com/thesteeldeal/2005/08/life_versus_dea.html