Table of Contents
- 1 Why does Janie decide to run away with Jody?
- 2 Why does Janie not run away from Jody and the town?
- 3 Why does Janie decide not to return to the past?
- 4 How did Jody treat Janie?
- 5 How does Janie threaten Jody and his sense of control?
- 6 Why did Janie start to go out and pick beans?
- 7 How old is Janie when Logan married?
- 8 What does Jody do after Janie insults him?
- 9 Why does Jody need to have his way all the time?
Why does Janie decide to run away with Jody?
The narrator tells us why Janie choose to run off with Jody. He represents “change and chance”, a distinct contrast to her boring and predictable life with Logan. As a young girl, Janie dreamed of a life filled with love and romance. She thought that marriage would naturally bring those 2 things into her life.
Why does Janie not run away from Jody and the town?
Why doesn’t Janie run away from Jody? She is worried that no one will take her in. She thinks that she might still love him. She is afraid of what Pheoby Watson will say.
Why does Janie decide not to return to the past?
She doesn’t know the kind of man Tea Cake is so she is determined not to get sucked into another marriage without love so she decides to treat him coldly if he ever comes back.
How does Janie cope with her unhappy life with Joe?
How does Janie cope with her unhappy life with Joe? Janie copes by stuffing all her feelings deep inside herself. Then she creates an inner life with her true thoughts and feelings and an outer life where she was an automaton.
How does Janie tolerate her relationship with Joe?
How is Janie able to “tolerate” her relationship with Jody? She ignores him and imagines herself sitting underneath a tree in summertime while she does her work. What does the narrator mean by “For the first time she could see a man’s head naked of its skull”?
How did Jody treat Janie?
How does Joe Starks treat Janie? Joe Starks treats Janie well in some ways: He builds her a big house and gives her nice clothes, and she gets the respect due to the wife of the mayor. However, Joe is also very domineering and jealous. He makes Janie cover her hair so other men can’t see it.
How does Janie threaten Jody and his sense of control?
He forces her to tie her hair up because its phallic quality threatens his male dominance and because its feminine beauty makes him worry that he will lose her. Janie ultimately rebels against Jody’s suppression of her, and by toppling his secure sense of his own power, she destroys his will to live.
Why did Janie start to go out and pick beans?
Why did Janie first start to go out and pick beans? They needed the money. She didn’t trust Tea Cake among all of the other women. Tea Cake reassured Janie that she was the only woman in whom he was interested.
What does Janie mean when she says love is Lak de sea it’s uh Movin thing but still and all it takes its shape from de shore it meets and it’s different with every?
What does Janie mean when she says “Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore”? Janie urges her friend to tell them love is not a single constant thing, but it is like the sea, shaped by the shores it meets.
How did Joe treat Janie?
How old is Janie when Logan married?
16 years old
Though Janie hopes that it will grow, there is never any gentleness or love between her and Logan. She is 15 or 16 years old when she is married off to Logan and later, she grows to resent her grandmother for selling her off, like a slave.
What does Jody do after Janie insults him?
What does Jody do after Janie insults him in front of the other men? He hits Janie as hard as he can. He laughs in a futile attempt to diffuse the tension. He realizes how terribly he has behaved and apologizes. He violently throws her out of town.
Why does Jody need to have his way all the time?
Jody depends on the exertion of power for his sense of himself; he is only happy and secure when he feels that he holds power over those around him. In Janie’s words, he needs to “have [his] way all [his] life, trample and mash down and then die ruther than tuh let [him]self heah ’bout it.”
Why does Jody tie Janie’s hair up?
Jody is obsessed with notions of power, and Janie remains unfulfilled by their relationship because these notions require her to be a mute, static object and prevent her from growing. He forces her to tie her hair up because its phallic quality threatens his male dominance and because its feminine beauty makes him worry that he will lose her.
How is Jody plotting to steal your girl?
Jody is lying in wait, plotting to steal your girl when you’re away. It’s easy: Jody will swoop in, console her when she’s lonely, then slowly fill your boots simply because he’s there and you’re not.
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