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#1
"Then one day she sat and watched the shadow of herself going about tending store and prostrating itself before Jody, while all the time she herself sat under a shady tree with the wind blowing through her hair and her clothes" (Hurston 77).

In this quote we see the affect of her abusive marriage on her mental state. She had become a shell of her self. She wanted to escape her marriage, and go back to her childhood. The tree just like the peach tree in the beginning of the story symbolizes her sexual awakening. because although she has had sex she has never experienced passion, or love. This is what she is searching for.

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#2
"So Janie began to think of Death. Death, that strange being with huge square toes who lived wayin the west. The great one who lived in a strainght house like a platform witout sides to it, and without a roof" (Hurston 84).

This quote is important to the book because it is showing that a man from far away is here to take him. This is symbolizing how jody took away her freedom just like how death is taking away his.

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#3
"After that night Jody moved his things and slept in a room downstirs" (pg. 81).

This quote is important because it is showing how Janie and Jody's relationship is falling apart or ending and how she is starting to feel lonely.

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#4
"Before she slept that night, she burnt up every one of her head rags and went about the house next morning with her hair in one thick braid swinging well below her waist" (Hurston 89).

This quote appears after Joe's death. This moment in the text symbolizes that Janie is finally able to free herself from one of Joe's burdens and is letting go and feeling free.

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#5
"Sh-sh-sh! Don't let nobody her you say dat, Janie. Folks will say you ain't sorry he's gone/Let 'em say whut dey wants tuh, Pheoby. To my thinkin' mourning oughtn't tuh last no longer'n grief" (Hurston 93).

These quotes are said when Janie and Pheoby are discussing Joe's death. Janie tells Pheoby that she worries about Joe but loves the freedom. Pheoby tells Janie that the townspeople will hear her and think that she isn't sad that Joe is dead. Janie replies that she doesn't care what the townspeople think because she shouldn't have to pretend to be sad if she isn't. This moment in the text shows that Janie feels that Joe's death was freeing and she has finally escaped his abuse.