The narrator did not state who he was just his family members. It can quite possibly be the poet himself. The poem is in second person. The language used is simple but at the same time figurative. There is nothing harsh about the way he speaks. You mostly just imagine the greenhouse. The form was open and informal. He repeats a lot of colors such as green, orange, and black. The meaning of the poem is at first is that the family is shut inside of a green colored house (not a greenhouse with plants) and also inside of their own naive minds.
The daughter wants to go out and live alone. Apparently they migrated from Germany and were stuck in their simple mindedness. They call her a delicate non-indigenous plant (making another reference to the greenhouse even though it wasn't that type of greenhouse) who fell in love with a black man. When she married him her father mourned for her as if she were dead (she was dead to him), even though she wasn't far away (orange-second color-not for but just outside of the home).
She had two daughters and they never met their grandfather. Then he died and the daughter and her family came to the house to see the grandmother. They opened all the window (a symbol of accepting her daughter and her family) because it was a beautiful spring day. They also brought out the delicate china from Germany (indicating that they were immigrants, and further welcomed the new family) that was locked up for years.
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