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"Something else made men give way before him. He had a bow-down command in his face, and every step he took made things more tangible." pg 47

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Joe Starks' life seemed to revolve around gaining power. He was able to get it and make people nearly afraid of him, and not from any physical fear or intellectual.

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"You have tuh power tuh free things and dat makes you lak uh king uh something." pg 58

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Have the control of the of the fate of someone/something else defines power.

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"If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer where you at," pg 159

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Janie refers to being with Tea Cake as coming out of the dark. Very romantic.

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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." pg 1

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The horizon was dreams never met. Always out of reach, but visible.

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"Here Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made- the horizon..." pg 89

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Janie's dreams of love and her future were the horizon that her Nanny pinched.

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"In the cool of the afternoon the fiend from hell specially sent to lovers arrived at Janie's ear. Doubt."

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She loved Tea Cake but worried he would break her heart. Her fear affects their relationship and her own insecurity.

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"Mrs. Turner, like all other believers had built an altar to the unattainable-- Caucasian characteristics for all." pg 145

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Mrs. Turner, like many others, is stuck in the fact that somehow specific features make a person better.

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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." pg 8

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The color of her skin hardly shaped her until she was old enough to realize there was something different.

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"Besides she liked being lonesome for a change. This freedom feeling was fine." pg 90

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"She tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair." pg 87

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Shortly after Joe is dead, she does this as a symbol of no longer being under his control. He controlled everything she did/had, even her hair.

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"That night he ordered Janie to tie up her hair around the store. That was all." pg 55

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Her hair represents her freedom, and Joe is exerting his control over her without question.

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She's feeling relieved to be independent from those who would control her.

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"'Tain't dat Ah worries over Joe's death, Phoeby. Ah jus' loves dis freedom."

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Janie's not looking to give up her independence and freedom it took so long to regain.

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"Ah wuz fumblin' round and God opened de door." pg 159

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Janie refers to being with Tea Cake as something determined by a higher power.

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"It wasn't anything she could fight. She could only ache and wait." pg 178

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Fate is something that happens regardless of your wishes.

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"Oh down in de Everglades ... We must go there." pg 178

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Work on the Everglades and prosperity there was quite different from today.

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"The very next day... to vote on it." pg 44

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This quote refers to the first street light in Eatonville; the development of a town.

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"The people all saw her come because it was sundown... They sat in judgement." pg 1

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Janie's community consists of these judgmental porch sitters

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"When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice." pg 51

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Their are parts of her porch-sitter community that Janie enjoys.

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"It was inevitable that she should accept any inconsistency and cruelty from her deity as all good worshippers do from theirs." pg 145

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While this is referring to Mrs. Turner's 'worshipping' it also relates to Janie's own relationship with God and the events of the hurricane and Tea Cake's death.

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"Was He noticing what was going on around here? He must because He knew everything. Did he mean to do this thing to Tea Cake and her?" pg 178

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Janie's 'eyes are to God' in her moment of distress and questioning.

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"No matter what Jody did , she said nothing." pg 76

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Janie's lost her will and fight and has resigned her self to a life of silent discontent.

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"Thank yuh fuh yo' compliments, bu mah wife don't know nothin' 'bout no speech-makin'. Ah never married her for nothin' lak dat. She's uh woman and her place is in de home." pg 43

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Jody controls even her speech without knowing her own thoughts because he believes in 'a woman's place'. Janie feels cold at being silenced.

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"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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She relates the pear tree to her own blossoming youth and love.

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"Janie pulled back a long time because he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke for far horizon." pg 29

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Janie didn't feel the youthful love that the tree symbolizes when she meets Joe, but she knows he promises something more.

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"They just didn't use another part... Six eyes were questioning God." pg 159

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When faced with the sheer force and power of the storm, all they can do is sit and wait and question their higher power.

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"They sat in company with other shanties, their eyes straining against crude walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His." pg 160

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Once again relating the hurricane to the might of God with which they have no power against.