There were several other equally ghastly figurines of the same general type elsewhere in the trailer ( I did n't go digging for them ) . The most mysterious were , surely , the figurines of small African - American childen riding on the backs of alligators ( one of them is just visible in the upper left corner of the image below ) . Surely , something so odd must mean something -- perhaps they relate to some regional folk - tale or old saying -- but what ?

Question: Why is the narrator a bit unsettled ?
Answer: These dolls scare her .She does not like children .She is scared by the ghostly machines being collected .She does not like African Americans .