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Janie was Joe's trophy; nothing more, nothing less.  She wasn't meant to have an opinion or a voice, that was his job. With Joe she was nothing but a pretty face and wife to the Mayor.

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With Joe you had to be careful what you said and what your opinion was. There were many talking about him, his marriage, and how he ran things. Although not many ever said it straight to him.

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The pear tree is also Janie's happy place, the area where everything looks happy and goes the way you plan. When she thinks of how she wants her life to be, its embedded in this quote.

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The pear tree is Janie's vision of the perfect future. It's her fairy tale love and all her hopes. The pear tree begins to come down when she cannot control her love, or how her life plays out.

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The hurricane is the start, of the end. The struggle and confusion that came with it goes along with the story line of life never giving you a break. Sometimes you are never in control.

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There was a constant battle when it came to the hurricane. There was trials, and moments of never going back. The hurricane symbolizes a new beginning, and a different ending.

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Janie wanted independence and to move on to a brighter future that she had control of. She wanted to see new things and meet new people as they come toward her. The horizon is symbolizing that new beginning.

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In the novel the horizon holds symbolism for the future, the past, and even the present. Janie is under constant control of Nanny for the beginning of the book, she says Nanny took her future and her destiny and made it into something completely different.

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In this quote Janie is using religious beliefs as a form of a shooting star. She is wishing no one else will love Tea Cake except for her, and that no one will love her but Tea Cake. She says she has been waiting long enough and needs her wish to come true.

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Everyone has a different opinion of how the world was created. In the novel God and his powers are always mentioned. Everyone seems to have been brought up with the same religious beliefs.

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Many of the main characters in the novel tried to control Janie's actions and decisions. But, they couldn't control her thoughts. Eventually Janie knew she had to think for herself and not just do what she is told.

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The end of the book is a symbol for independence. Janie is finally moving on and doesn't need anyone beside her. She is no longer full of loneliness. She can live on her own, and control her own decisions.

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This is the beginning of Janie realizing who she is. For the longest she never saw color, she didn't understand that she was different.

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Nanny's history goes way back to the beginning of African American discrimination. She tells Janie the truth of how she lived, explaining how even when things get hard there will always be light at the end.

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After everything Janie went through the community of porch sitters continued speaking of her. They wanted to know all the details and any information that could add to their judgement. They feel she is in a way, cocky or conceded, she simply doesn't belong.

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The entire community of porch sitters were judgmental and enjoyed speaking of others. They spoke about anyone and anything. This was the community Janie grew up in and is used to.

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Janie was used to something different. She was not used to open love and affection, or compliments. When she began realizing who she was and her worth, Tea Cake speaking of her appearance made confidence inside her start to grow.

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Tea Cake was different from Janie's last 2 husbands. He thought her hair was beautiful and he appreciated it. In the middle of the book Joe always wanted Janie to have her hair up, he felt it made her look a certain way.

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In the beginning of the Novel, Janie's ideas of love were out of a fairy tale.  She believed with marriage came love, instead of with love comes marriage.

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This quote is explaining that love is different for and with everyone. Love makes you do crazy things and change yourself because you feel you should be the person your partner wants.

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Nanny is another major character who had power over Janie and her life. Nanny told Janie what to do, how to do it, who to marry, and what not to do. Through the first part of the novel Nanny has full control of Janie and her actions.

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Joe was constantly in power over many things, including Janie.  He believed the woman's place was next to the man, making him look better.  Joe had an infinite amount of power over Janie throughout their marriage.

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In this time period whites were much higher in social rank. The African American race was looked at as trash. Race played a huge factor in how people saw each other.

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Janie "acts white". She carries herself in a manner that no one around her does. When it comes to race and social rank people think you should fit into a certain criteria to meet their standards of how a Black or White person should act.

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Tea Cake does not get to choose how he dies, that part of his life was already assigned to him. Nothing he does will change the overall outcome.

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Nanny tells Janie she is being silly because no matter what, Logan was destined to look how he does. He did not decide how he was going to look, that was fate.

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"A respectful silence fell on the place. Sam looked at Joe and said, "Dat's uh new idea 'bout varmints, Mayor Starks. But Ah laks it mah ownself. It's uh noble thing you done." Everybody agreed with that." (58)

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"You gettin' too moufy, Janie," Starks told her. "Go fetch me de checker-board and de checkers. Sam Watson, you'se mah fish." (75)

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"Going to high ground. Saw-grass bloom. Hurricane coming." (154)

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We wuz caught in dat hurricane out heah, and Tea Cake overstrained hisself swimmin' such uh long time and holdin' me up too, and walkin' all dem miles in de storm..." (176)

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"Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think. Ah . . . " (24)

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

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"She had been getting ready for her great journey to the horizons in search of people; it was important to all the world that she should find them and they find her." (89)

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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. Ah done waited uh long time. (120)

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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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"Naw it ain't, it's nature, cause nature makes caution. It's de strongest thing dat God ever made, now. Fact is it's de onliest thing God ever made. He made nature and nature made everything else." (65)

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"She found that she had a host of thoughts she had never expressed to him, and numerous emotions she had never let Jody know about. "(72)

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"Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net."(193)

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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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"Ah'll phone into Palm Beach right away for the serum which he should have had three weeks ago. I'll do all I can to save him, Janie. But it looks too late." (177)

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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." (191)

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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'." (16)

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"What she doin coming back here in dem overhalls? Can't she find no dress to put on? Where's dat blue satin dress she left here in? Where all dat money her husband took and died and left her?—What dat ole forty year ole 'oman doin' wid her hair swingin' down her back lak some young gal?—Where she left dat young lad of a boy she went off here wid?—Thought she was going to marry?—Where he left her ?—What he done wid all her money?—Betcha he off wid some gal so young she ain't even got no hairs—why she don't stay in her class?—"  (2)

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"These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. 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. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment."  (1)

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"Janie hung over the newel post thinking so long that she all but went to sleep there. However, before she went to bed she took a good look at her mouth, eyes and hair." (106)

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"It's mine too. Ah ain't been sleepin' so good for more'n uh week cause Ah been wishin' so bad tuh git mah hands in yo' hair. It's so pretty. It feels jus' lak underneath uh dove's wing next to mah face." (103)

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"Whut Ah seen just now is plenty for me, honey, Ah don't want no trashy nigger, no breath-and-britches, lak Johnny Taylor usin' yo' body to wipe his foots on." (13)

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"Ah told you in de very first beginnin' dat Ah aimed tuh be uh big voice. You oughta be glad, 'cause dat makes uh big woman outa you."(46)

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"Us colored folks is too envious of one 'nother. Dat's how come us don't git no further than us do. Us talks about de white man keepin' us down! Shucks! He don't have tuh. Us keeps our own selves down." (39)

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"Ah thought you would 'preciate good treatment. Thought Ah'd take and make somethin' outa yuh. You think youse white folks by de way you act." (30)

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"Husbands and wives always loved each other, and that was what marriage meant. It was just so. Janie felt glad of the thought, for then it wouldn't seem so destructive and mouldy. She wouldn't be lonely anymore."(21)

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"'Cause Ah hates de way his head is so long one way and so flat on de sides and dat pone uh fat back uh his neck." "He never made his own head. You talk so silly." (24)