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"Mah daily prayer now is tuh let dese golden moments rolls on a few days longer till Ah see you safe in life" (15).

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Foreshadows Nanny's fate. She knows she'll be gone soon. She prays to God that she lasts long enough to see Janie safe.

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"The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman" (25).

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Basically states that Janie's first goal was dead, so she sets her sights to her future, she wants to make her own fate. Choose her own path.

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"Honey, de white man is de ruler of eerything as fur as Ah been abe tuh find out"(14).

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Nanny is telling Janie that the white people hold the power in their world. And that Nanny has never seen life any different.

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"De n*gger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see. Ah been prayin' fuh it tuh be different wid you.Lawd, Lawd, Lawd!"(14).

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Nanny says this after she brings up the white man's power. She's explaining how black women don't have any power in the world and that it's been like that since before she was even born.

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"Janie had no chance to know things, so she had to ask. Did marriage end the cosmmic loneliness of the unmated? Did marriage compel love like the sun the day?" (21).

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This intro to the chapter lays down the frame for Janie's thoughts about how love really works.

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"'Cause you told me Ah mus gointer love him, and, and Ah don't. Maybe if somebody was to tell me how, Ah could do it"(23)

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Janie assumed that marriage would instantly make you love the person. She explained to Nanny that she thought that she'd love Logan. She doesn't love him, and she doesn't know how to either.

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"Dis occasion is something for us all tuh remember tuh our dyin' day. De first street lamp in uh colored town" (45).

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Shows history of the town by retelling when the first street lamp was placed in the colored town.

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"`Aw, aw! Ah'm colored!' "Den dey all laughed real hard. But before Ah seen de picture Ah thought Ah wuz just like de rest.'" (9).

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Gives the readers a little bit of Janie's history. When she was young, she didn't know that she was black until someone pointed it out in a photo.

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"And furthermo' everything is got tuh have uh center and uh heart tuh it, and uh town ain't no different from nowhere else. It would be natural fuh de store tuh be meetin' place fuh de town." (40).

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Explains that a town, or community needs a center so they can gather and be together. The character is saying how a store would be the perfect place for that.

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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...They were all so respectful and stiff with her, she might've been the Empress of Japan" (92,93).

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This scene shows that the community as a whole was respectful towards Janie, especially since Joe died.

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"To her way of thinking all these things set her aside from Negroes. That was why she sought out Janie to friend with. Janie's coffee-and-cream complexion and her luxurious hair made Mrs. Turner forgive her for wearing overalls like the other women who worked in the fields. She didn't forgive her for marrying a man as dark as Tea Cake, but she felt that she could remedy that"(140)

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Mrs.Turner is racist towards blacks. Despite liking Janie, she dislikes her choice of mates. (Tea cake)

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"Ah was wid dem white chillun so much till Ah didn't know Ah wuzn't white till Ah was round six years old" (8).

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Janie was conditioned to think she was white because she had hung around the white children so much, and she didn't find out about her real race until she saw herself in a photo.

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"'Tain't dat Ah worries over Joe's death, Pheoby. Ah jus' loves dis freedom."
"Sh-sh-sh! Don't let nobody hear you say dat, Janie. Folks will say you ain't sorry he's gone." (93).

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Shows how Janie is pleased that Joe isn't around to tell her what to do.

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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"(87).

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Janie was free from Joe, and this independence is represented by her letting down her hair, which Joe had always made her hide.

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"One mornin' soon, now, de angel wid de 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 mah arms to let me stay here till you got grown" (15).

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Nanny believes that the day that the angel carrying a sword stops protecting her from death, she'll finally pass away.

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"Lawd have mercy! It was a long time on de way but Ah reckon it had to come. Oh Jesus! Do, Jesus! All done de best Ah could"(15).

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Nanny asked God to have mercy once she saw Janie kissing a boy.

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"Time came when she fought back with her tongue as best she could, but it didn't do her any good. It just made Joe do more. He wanted her submission and he'd keep on fighting until he felt he had it. So gradually, she pressed her teeth together and learned to hush" (71).

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Janie decided to verbally defend herself, but Joe wanted her to submit completely, so he tried harder to silence her.

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"Shut up! Ah wish thunder and lightnin' would kill yuh!"
"Ah know it. And now you got tuh die tuh find out dat you got tuh pacify somebody besides yo'self if you wants any love and  any sympathy in dis world. You ain't tried tuh pacify nobody but yo'self. Too busy listening tuh yo' own big voice"(86,87).

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Both Joe and Janie want each other to stop speaking and be quiet.

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"The men noticed her firm buttocks like she had grape fruits in her hip pockets; the great rope of black hair swinging to her waist and unraveling in the wind like a plume..."(2).

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The men are noticing her hair. This will later be a symbol for freedom and confidence since Joe forces her to wear a hair rag.

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"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"(89).

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Janie freeing her hair is symbolizing her freeing herself from Joe's oppression.

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"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"(106).

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Tea Cake is the bee to Janie, who's the blossom. And the pear tree is representing their love for each other.

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

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Logan was messing up Janie's thoughts of the pear tree, which symbolizes love, because Logan was just so damn gross.

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"Here Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made, the horizon—for no matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you—and pinched it in to such a little bit of a thing that she could tie it about her granddaughter's neck tight enough to choke her"(89).

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Horizons symbolize goals, and Nanny had messed up Janie's horizon which was love and freedom.

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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"(1).

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While everyone has a goal, not everyone can reach them