fulfillment(their eyes)

... idea of marrying Logan, the image of being married to him betrays the image she has of the pear tree in bloom (pg 14 ). She wants marriage to feel like what she feels when sitting under the pear tree. When Janie realizes love does not come after marriage. She becomes a woman. Second Janie marries Joe Stark, Janie ran away with Joe, Joe Starks is not the husband Janie thought he could be and he definitely does not fulfill her. Janie argues with Joe that he never allowed her to show him who she really was, because he was always restricting her. For example, he made her tie up her hair, and when the town Folk of Eatonville asks Janie to make a speech, after Joe has just been elected mayor, but Joe cuts in and says that she does not know anything about making speeches. He doesn・t give her the chance to speak, :Thank yuh fuh yo・ compliments, but mah wife don・t know nothing・ .bout no speech-makin;(pg 43). Janie does not have a strong grip on her identity. Janie feels free of the restrictions that now he is dead. Janie also gains some sense of identity as she take off her hair rag, which Joe made her keep tied. She is still an attractive woman (: the young girl was gone, but a handsome woman had taken her place;(pg87). After Joe・s funeral, Janie realizes that her grandmother had the wrong idea when it came to finding and fulfilling your dreams, her grandmother wanted Janie to search for thing, Janie really just wanted people and most of all, love she knows that now. (Pg 89) Last Janie marries Vergible Woods (Tea Cake), who represents what Janie has ...

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