Here, the rose in Lucy Gray’s basket symbolizes not just the Snows’ attempts to look wealthy, but Coriolanus’s desire to help Lucy Gray survive and feel like she’s a person, not just a pawn. From her descriptions, it’s clear that things are tense between the tributes. They’ve all gotten to know each other over the past few days, and in only a few hours, they’re all going to have to kill each other. So the tributes have learned to humanize each other, only to have to turn around and prioritize themselves exclusively.