Gatsby
...ive her life and experience love and the changing of her body. Janie was “waiting for the world to be made” and felt the tree “called her to gaze on a mystery.” Hurston’s use of diction here was effective because we understand that Janie is eager and curious. Her world was beginning, and she didn’t want to miss out on it. The reader really starts to comprehend from Hurston’s diction Janie’s willingness to grow up. Hurston utilizes detail throughout this passage to distinguish the Janie’s contrasting mood. As “the rose of the world was breathing out smell” Janie felt this smell “followed her through all her waking moments and caressed her in her sleep.” I think this sentence reveals Janie’s fascination with finding herself. She knows and senses that there is something there waiting for her to uncover. Janie witnesses the “dust-bearing bee sinking into the sanctum of the bloom” and realizes that “this was a marriage!” This quote is effective because we see tha...