They put her to bed and sent for her married daughter from up around Ocala to come see about her. The daughter came as soon as she could and took Annie Tyler away to die in peace. She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
The thing made itself into pictures and hung around Janie's bedside all night long. Anyhow, she wasn't going back to Eatonville to be laughed at and pitied. She had ten dollars in her pocket and twelve hundred in the bank. 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 uf fool, Lawd, lad dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.
Janie dozed off to sleep but she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. he peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red. but pretty soon, he laid all that aside and went about his business dressed all in white. But it was always going to be dark to Janie if Tea Cake didn't soon come back. She got out of the bed but a chair couldn't hold her. she dwindled down on the floor her head in a rocking chair.
Bold words: Ambiguous
colored bright blue: Feeling of urgency
Colored yellow: feeling of despair
colored pink: innocence
colored bark blue: word choice
words colored and italicized and bold: word choice and colored category
Phrases bold with italics: Two desired men Vs. Sun
Janie had this urge to prove people's opinions of Tea Cake wrong. She was proud of her decision and now she feels it was a huge mistake. All of her husbands gave her a moment of despair. The purpose of this passage was to show the doubt we all have in each other.
We almost pity Janie for getting herself in this situation. Oddly enough that was what she wanted to avoid.
I really like how you talked about doubt. I hadn't thought about the tone as being doubtful or Janie as doubting herself, that is a really cool point to bring up. I had said that she felt desperate. But I can see that there's also a note of regret and doubt
ReplyDeleteReally good analysis, I hadn't even thought of Janie trying to prove people's opinions of Tea Cake wrong, or how she started doubting herself, and after reading through it again I see that there is a bit of doubt showing through.
ReplyDeleteThe pointing out of the innocence and urgency/despair were very good things to pick up on; they're subtle and hard to see.
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