" Ah told you in de very first beginning dat Ah aimed tuh be uh big voice... You oughts be glad, 'cause dat makes uh big woman outa you." pg.46
Jody seems to want his happiness from his power to transition to Janie. But Janie isn't happy, instead she is always seeking something else but never finds it. Also, Jody's focus is to be someone with a voice and power, but he never mentions that he wants to make her happy or be a good husband, which should make Janie doubt him but it doesn't. Also, this shows how Janie is molded into something that she is different from, but doesn't doubt this because she isn't shown to form an opinion.
"Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think. Ah..."
I think this is a good example of how Janie wants something else but since she isn't taught to form herself and have any freedom therefore she doesn't go after it. In my opinion, the tree represent Janie because a tree is naturally grown but other things can affect it's growth like water, fertilizer, and weather. I feel like the things that can affect it's growth represent all of the characters that are forming Janie into what she is. She feels comfort being near the tree because she wants to have freedom to be herself but isn't able to.
" Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams."
Janie had an epiphany and realized that Jody didn't hold her dreams and her thoughts, and now she thought of Jody as an image that has been run down by other thoughts of him. But she doesn't learn her lesson and it is just becomes a realization that isn't put to action. She still tries to find love in being objectified by other men and still is oppressed.
Jody seems to want his happiness from his power to transition to Janie. But Janie isn't happy, instead she is always seeking something else but never finds it. Also, Jody's focus is to be someone with a voice and power, but he never mentions that he wants to make her happy or be a good husband, which should make Janie doubt him but it doesn't. Also, this shows how Janie is molded into something that she is different from, but doesn't doubt this because she isn't shown to form an opinion.
"Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think. Ah..."
I think this is a good example of how Janie wants something else but since she isn't taught to form herself and have any freedom therefore she doesn't go after it. In my opinion, the tree represent Janie because a tree is naturally grown but other things can affect it's growth like water, fertilizer, and weather. I feel like the things that can affect it's growth represent all of the characters that are forming Janie into what she is. She feels comfort being near the tree because she wants to have freedom to be herself but isn't able to.
" Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams."
Janie had an epiphany and realized that Jody didn't hold her dreams and her thoughts, and now she thought of Jody as an image that has been run down by other thoughts of him. But she doesn't learn her lesson and it is just becomes a realization that isn't put to action. She still tries to find love in being objectified by other men and still is oppressed.
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