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Since Janie was seen a mixture of both races it made her look bad because both races were not aloud to be together. She seemed different from the general African American population so she was more vulnerable to bullying and being picked on for that.

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Janie would of not notice her race at all if people didn't treat her differently. She was shocked at first to see that she is different from everyone else, but after everyone judged her for her race she soon became very different from the others.

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Tea Cake is seen as Janie's horizon providing her a life she always wanted and the love she also tried to find. After Tea Cake died the "horizon" became an evening sun because Tea Cake's life is ending.

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Janie is always trying to find the next horizon because meaning that she wants to find new opportunities that will make her happy and maybe find love.

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"Tea, Cake the son of Evening Sun, had to die for loving her. She looked hard at the sky for a long time. Somewhere up there beyond blue ether's bosom sat He..." (pg. 178).

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"But when he heard all about 'em makin' a town all outa colored folks, he knowed dat was de place he wanted to be. He had always wanted to be a big voice, but de white folks had all de sayso where he come from and everywhere else, exceptin' dis place dat colored folks was buildin' theirselves" (pg. 28).

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'Us lived dere havin' fun till de chillun at school got to teasin ' me 'bout livin' in de white folks' back-yard. Derer waz uh knotty head gal name Mayrella dat useter git mad every time she look at me'(pg. 9).

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"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" (pg. 1).

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After Joe died Janie became free and no longer had to act a certain way to please Joe and the community he was in charge in. So when Janie let her hair be free it was a symbol of her being free without Joe holding her back and making her miserable.

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Joe was protective of Janie and didn't like the fact that other men were looking at his girl. Janie's hair being wrapped up by Joe is a symbol of her being locked up and having to act a certain way for show because she is with Joe.

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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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"This business of the head-rag irked her endlessly. But Jody didn't seem sensible at all. That was because Joe never told Janie how jealous he was. He never told her how often he had seen the other men figuratively wallowing in it as she went about things n Janie and brushing the back of his hand back and forth across the loose end of her braid ever so lightly so as to enjoy the feel of it without Janie knowing what he was doing..." (pg. 55)

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Janie first started as a girl who had no feelings for anyone and her life was dull, but then she met her first love and began to feel things making her feel more alive and wanting things that would make her feel that feeling again.

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the pear tree resembles Janie and her love life. It starts blooming in the spring with her first kiss with Johnny Taylor and then goes on from there.

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"Oh to be a pear tree -- any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world! She was sixteen. She had glossy leaves and bursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her" (pg. 11).

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"Janie had spent most of the day under a blossoming pear tree in the back-yard... From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom. It stirred her tremendously" (pg.10).