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"There was no doubt that the town respected  him and even admired him in a way. But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate" (pg.48).

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It's fate that powerful men draw hate from their peers. Because Joe gains wealth and opportunities in the town, he incites the resentment in the townspeople.

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"All next day in the house and store she thought resisting thoughts about Tea Cake. She even ridiculed him in her mind and was a little ashamed of the association.... She couldn't make him look just like any other man to her. He looked like the love thoughts of women. He could be a bee to a blossom-a pear tree blossom in the spring. He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with his footsteps. Crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took. Spices hung about him. He was a glance from God. (pg.106).

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Janie's integrity tells her not to get not to get intimate with Tea Cake but fate pulls her to him. It is almost like his scent and looks make her drawn to him. Because of this, it's very easy for her to fall in love with him.

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"Ah told you in de very beginnin' dat Ah aimed tuh be uh big voice. You oughta be glad, 'cause dat makes uh big woman outa you" (pg. 46).

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If Joe has a "big voice" it will lead to him having a higher rank and more respect in Eatonville. By denying Janie a voice,he is keeping her powerless.

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"All you got tuh do is mind me. How come you can't do lak Ah tell yuh?" "You sho loves to tell me whut to do, but Ah can't tell you nothin' Ah see!" "Dat's cause you need tellin'," he rejoined hotly. "It would be pitiful if Ah didn't. Somebody got to think for women and chillun and chickens and cows. I god, they sho don't think none theirselves" (pg.71).

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Joe doesn't have a problem telling Janie what to do. But when Janie points out that Joe won't listen to her, he simply brushes her off and voices his opinion on women's intelligence. Joe thinks women aren't smart and that they can't think for themselves. He believes men are superior to women.

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"He set it up and began to show her and she found herself glowing inside. Somebody wanted her to play. Somebody thought it natural for her to play. That was even nice. She looked him over and got little thrills from every one of his good points. Those full, lazy eyes with the lashes curling sharply away like drawn scimitars. The lean, over-padded shoulders and narrow waist. Even nice! (pg.96).

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When Tea Cake treats her as an equal and an intelligent person, she becomes more attracted to him. Tea Cake's behavior sets him apart from the other men and gives Janie a chance for love that she has wanted her whole life.

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"Tea Cake, whut you doin' back in de  quarters when everybody else is still workin'?" "Come tuh see 'bout you. De booderman liable tuh tote yuh off whilst Ah'm gone." "Tain't no boogerman got me tuh study 'bout. Maybe you think Ah ain't treatin' you right and you watchin' me?" "Naw, naw Janie. Ah know better'n dat. But since you got dat in yo' head, Ah'll have tuh tell yuh de real truth, so yuh can know. Janie, Ah gits lonesome out dere all day 'thout yuh. After dis, you betta come git uh job uh work out dere lak de rest uh de women-so Ah won't be losin' time comin' home" (pg. 133)

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Tea Cake loves Janie so much that he can't stand being away from her for very long.

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"What she doin coming back here in dem overhalls? Can't she find no dress to put on?--Where's dat blue satin dress she left here in?--Where all dat money her husband took and died and left her?--What dat ole forty year ole 'oman doin'wid her hair swingin'down her back lak someyoung gal?--Where he left dat young lad of a boy she went off here wid?--Thought she was going to marry?--Where he left her?--What he done wid all her money?--Betcha he off wid some gal so young she ain't even got no hairs--why she don't stay in her class?--" (pg.2).

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The residents of Eatonville insult Janie. The porch people are always gossiping about the town. Janie was known as the mayor's wife before she ran off with a younger and much more poorer man.

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"When Janie emerged into her mourning white, she had hosts of admirers in and out of town. Everything open and frank. Men of property too among the crowd, nut nobody seemed to get any further than the store. She was always too busy to take them to the house to entertain. They were all so respectful and stiff with her, that she might have been the Empress of Japan....  You spoke of honor and respect And all that they said and did was refracted by her inattention and shot off towards the rimbones of nothing" (pg.92-93).

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"Ah was wid dem white chillun so much till Ah didn't know Ah wusn't white till Ah was round six  years old.... So when we looked at de picture and everybody got pointed out there wasn't nobody left except a real dark little girl with long hair standing by Eleanor. Dat's where Ah wuz s'posed to be, but Ah couldn't recognize dat dark chile as me" (pg.8-9).

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Janie has been raised by her grandma and surrounded by white children all her life. She never got to experience actual racial discrimination because the family her grandma worked for, didn't discriminate.

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"Nigger whut's yo' baby doin' wid gray eyes and yaller hair?" She begin tuh slap mah jaws ever which a'way. Ah never felt the fust ones 'cause Ah wuz too busy gittin' de kivver back over mah chile.... But then she kept on astin me how come mah baby look white. She asted me dat maybe twenty-five or thirty times, lak she got tuh sayin' dat and couldn't help herself. So Ah told her, "Ah don't know nothin' but what Ah'm told tuh do, 'cause Ah ain't nothin' but uh nigger and uh slave... 'Ah wouldn't dirty mah hands on yuh. But first thing in de mornin' de overseer will take you to de whippin' post and tie you down on yo' knees and cut de hide offa yo' yaller back" (pg.17-18).

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The land lady is threatening to whip Nanny until she possibly dies and threatens to sell her child off. This because the child looks white and it's implied that Nanny was forced to conceive the land lord's child (who is a white man). This represents the racism because at the time the african americans were enslaved and were treated much worse than when they weren't enslaved.

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"The young girl was gone, but a handsome woman had taken her place. She tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair. The weight, the length, the glory was there" (pg. 87).

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After her confrontation with Joe, she removed her head wrap because Joe would always have her wrap her hair. She now has become an independent soul (because Joe died) and can now remove the wrap that has been consuming her beautiful hair and now let it fall freely down her back.

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"A feeling of sudden newness and change came over her. Janie hurried out of the front gate and turned south....The morning road air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on" (pg.32).

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Janie is leaving Logan and leaving her housewife duties behind her. She is no longer a young girl but a woman now. She is leaving Logan for Joe because he promises her great things. Which is ironic because she ends up becoming a house wife again with Joe.

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"One mornin' soon, now, de angel wid the sword is gointuh stop by here. De day and de hour is hid from me, but it won't be long. Ah ast de Lawd when you was uh infant in math arms to let me stay here till you got grown. He done spared me to see de day. Nah daily prayer now is duh let dose golden moments rolls on a few days longer till Ah see you safe in life" (pg. 15).

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Nanny is quite an old woman. She has been praying to God to let her live long enough to see Janie get married and be "safe in life".

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"And when she gained the privacy of her own little shack she stayed on her knees sol one she forgot she was there herself...."Lawd you know my heart. Ah done de best Ah could do. De rest is left to you." She scuffled up from her knees and fell heavily across the bed. A month later she was dead" (pg. 24).

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She knows that Janie is "safe" and now has accepted that God  can take over from here.

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"Shucks!" said Hicks. "Mah britches is just as long as his. But dat wife uh his! Ah'm uh son of uh Combunction if Ah don't go tuh Georgy and git me one just like her." "Whut wid?" "Wid mah talk, man" "It takes money tuh feed pretty women. Dey gits uh lavish uh talk." "Not lak mine. Dey loves to hear me talk because dey can't understand it. Nah co-talkin' is too deep. Too much co to it" (pg.35-36).

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Hicks feels confident in his way of talking to women and having them fall for him. He manipulative and just assumes that women fall for him because they don't understand his use of words. He assumes they fall for him because he uses impressive words.

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"Seeing the woman as she was made them remember the envy they had stored up from other times. So they chewed up the back parts of their minds and swallowed with relish. They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty. A mood come alive. Words walking without masters; walking altogether like harmony in a song" (pg.2).

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The porch women gossip all day long. They use their words as weapons to hurt people that they hate and envy, like Janie.

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"This business of the head-rag irked her endlessly. But Jody was set on it. Her hair was NOT going to show in the store. It didn’t seem sensible at all. That was because Joe never told Janie how jealous he was...That night he ordered Janie to tie up her hair around the store. That was all. She was there in the store for him to look at, not those others" (pg. 55).

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Janie's hair is a mark of beauty for her. When Joe demands her to wrap it up, it is a show if ownership. He is the only person who can touch her hair and look at her hair. She is like a trophy wife for him.

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"the great rope of black hair swinging to her waist and unraveling in the wind like a plume" (pg. 2).

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Janie's hair symbolizes her beauty in the town. Her mother is a mark of white and black decent and she herself is a mix of that too. Her hair takes the form of a white persons hair and is different than a black persons hair.

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"Janie had spent most of the day under a blossoming pear tree in the back-yard. She had been spending every minute that she could steal from her chores under that tree for the last three days....From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom. It stirred her tremendously. How? Why? It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and remembered again. What? How? Why? This singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears. The rose of the world was breathing out smell. It followed her through all her waking moments and caressed her in her sleep. It connected itself with other vaguely felt matters that had struck her outside observation and buried themselves in her flesh. Now they emerged and quested about her consciousness....So this was a marriage! She had been summoned to behold a revelation" (pg. 10-11).

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The pear tree symbolizes Janie's view on men. It is the hope for the future to find a husband and live a happy and loved life.

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"The vision of Logan Hillocks was desecrating the pear tree, but Janie didn't know how to tell Nanny that. She merely hunched over and pouted at the floor" (pg.14).

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Janie does not find Logan attractive at all. She doesn't love him at all and she believes he's ruining her dreams of a beautiful marriage.

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"Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly" (pg. 1).

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Mens dreams are unreachable like the distant ships that will never come to the shore. But when men realize their dreams are very unrealistic, they give up and move on. But women can't distinguish dream and reality. Their dreams are their reality. The horizon symbolizes Janie's search for happiness.

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"Ah done been tuh de horizon and back and now Ah kin set yeah in math house and live by comparisons" (pg.191).

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After Tea Cake died Janie returned back to Eatonville. She has now experienced what real love and happiness is. Now she is going to reflect on her life and the hardships she went through and the happy times she went through.

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"Tea Cake rose out of the water at the cow’s rump and seized the dog by the neck. But he was a powerful dog and Tea Cake was over-tired. So he didn’t kill the dog with one stroke a he had intended. But the dog couldn’t free himself either. They fought and somehow he managed to bite Tea Cake high up on his cheek-bone once. Then Tea Cake finished him and sent him to the bottom to stay there" (pg.166).

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The dog bite is caused because of Tea Cake's love for Janie. It's their sacrificing love that makes Tea Cake kill the dog. It's their selfless love that causes Tea Cake to go rabid and die and Janie to become a widow.

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"The wind came back with triple fury and put out the light for the last time. They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against crude walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God" (pg.160).

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Only when a person is faced with a natural disaster (such as a hurricane) do they feel the need to call out to God. Even if they aren't a believer they will call out. Here the characters realize that their free will doesn't one up God's free will.

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After Joe died he men in the town decided to pursue her.