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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." (Pg. 55)

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The head - rags are symbolic of the stifled identity and expression. This is also directly related to the power that Joe Starks had over her.

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"Her hair is not what you might call straight. It’s negro hair, but it’s got a kind of white flavor. Like the piece of string out of a ham. It’s not ham at all, but it’s been around ham and got the flavor. It was spread down thick and heavy over her shoulders and looked just right under a big white hat." (Pg. 67)

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This shows Daisy using her hair for attention she wears white because it contrasts with her hair.

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"She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage! She had been summoned to behold a revelation. Then Janie felt a pain remorseless sweet that left her limp and languid." (Pg. 11)

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The Pear tree is symbolic of passion regarding marriage and sex because of the wording. However, it isn't sex for sex's sake, but rather the love and passion in sex and marriage.

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"The vision of Logan Killicks was desecrating the pear tree but Janie didn’t know how to tell Nanny that." (Pg. 14)

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This explains the pear tree as a representation of love crushed by the reality Janie faces when she realizes she has to marry Logan.

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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." (Pg. 1)

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According to Their Eyes Were Watching God, men tend to be more grounded in reality and have to resign to their fate.

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“Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.”
(Pg. 191)

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The horizon, regarding the sea expresses relationships and love. It's how no two relationships are the same and each love is different (but valid). If it is a broken relationship then it can give wisdom.

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"Thank yuh fuh yo' compliments, but 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. 40)

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Joe is demeaning to Janie and he believes that a woman's place in the house. The women aren't usually heard or making speeches

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"Or maybe cheese was thirty-seven cents a pound and somebody came and asked for a dime's worth. She went through many silent rebellions over things like that."
(Pg. 54)

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The term "silent rebellion" refers to an internal conflict Janie has with the money. This is important because the value constantly fluctuated making it hard to keep up with how much things were worth.

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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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People hate Joe because of how much power he holds as mayor, but some of them don't agree with his decisions.

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"Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human. They became lords of sounds and lesser things." (Pg. 1)

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When the power of authority is gone, the people of Eatonville are more confident and talk more often with confidence.

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"It's about time. Youse powerful independent around here sometime considerin'." "Considerin' whut for instance?" "Considerin' youse born in a carriage 'thout no top to it, and yo' mama and you bein' born and raised in de white folks back-yard." (Pg. 38)

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Logan recognizes the independence that Janie has and he believes that this is contradictory to her and Nanny's past.

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"Freedom found me wid a baby daughter in mah arms, so Ah said Ah’d take a broom and a cook-pot and throw up a highway through de wilderness for her." (Pg. 16)

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Nanny takes her chance for freedom, but she has a baby and she tries to take want she can before

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"Ah don't love him at all. Whut made me do it is—oh, Ah don't know." (Pg. 15)

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Although Janie had not experienced "true love" at the time, her childhood curiosity got the best of her, and when she is with Tea Cake, she experiences true love.

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"Don't think Ah don't feel wid you, Janie, 'cause Ah do. Ah couldn't love yuh no more if Ah had uh felt yo' birth pains mahself. Fact uh de matter, Ah loves yuh a whole heap more'n Ah do yo' mama, de one Ah did birth." (Pg. 15)

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Nanny wants to protect Janie because of Janie's mother's experience. Although Nanny has her heart in the right place, Janie doesn't want to marry Logan and wants to discover love for herself, at her own time.

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"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 people gossiping about Janie at the beginning of the book is a normal think. Gossip is described as "mass cruelty" which can be taken as rumors spreading exponentially.

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"Y'all know we can't invite people to our town just dry long so. I god, naw. We got tuh feed 'em something, and 'tain't nothin' people laks better'n barbecue."
(Pg. 44)

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One of Joe Starks first moves as mayor, was to have a barbecue. This was to show hospitality and friendliness to the growing community in Eatonville.

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"When a man's kidneys stop working altogether, there is no way for him to live. He needed medical attention two years ago. Too late now." (Pg. 83)

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This news causes Joe to comes to terms with his fate. Janie has to come to the realization as well.

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"They fought and somehow he managed to bite Tea Cake high up on his cheek-bone once." (Pg. 166)

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The term "somehow" made it seem that the chances of the dog biting Tea Cake there was slim but succombed to his fate.

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"De Pastor claim Tea Cake don't 'low her tuh come tuh church only once in awhile 'cause he want dat change tuh buy gas wid. Just draggin' de woman away from church." (Pg. 111)

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This is interesting because the Pastor jumps to the conclusion that since Janie wasn't going to church, Tea Cake must be "bad". However it implies that many people were expected to be at church

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"But oh God, don't let Tea Cake be off somewhere hurt and Ah not know nothing about it. And God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus." (Pg. 120)

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Because Janie is so worried about Tea Cake's whereabouts, she prays to God and relies heavily on prayer. This shows the significance of prayer in the community.

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"Ah was born back due in slavery so it wasn't for me to fulfill my dreams of whut a woman oughta be and to do. Dat's one of de hold-backs of slavery. But nothing can't stop you from wishin'." (Pg. 16)

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Nanny believed that even though she was a slave she kept hope and drive. Her past as a slave and the experience with Janie's mom led her to try to protect Janie at all costs

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"Dat school teacher had done hid her in de woods all night long, and he had done raped mah baby and run on off just before day. "She was only seventeen, and somethin' lak dat to happen!" (Pg. 19)

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Here we have a glimpse of the past Janie's mom had. The result of Leafy's experience drove her to alcohol and to neglect Janie and that is why Nanny takes care of her.

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"If it wuzn't for so many black folks it wouldn't be no race problem. De white folks would take us in wid dem. De black ones is holdin' us back."
(Pg. 141)

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Despite being black herself, she feels that her own race betrayed her and holding them back. She also claims that she doesn't like the way they act.

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"Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de black man tuh pick it up." (Pg. 14)

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Nanny acknowledges that the black man may have power somewhere else, but believes that the white manis the ruler of everything .