And They Lived Happily Ever After Janie Analysis

Janie Mae Crawford’s story is one of turmoil, and struggles. Janie wishes to live a fairytale life to make up for her troubled upbringing. While Nanny did raise Janie well, and tried to do what was best for her, it is still hard to go through life without your parents. Especially because Janie never really knew her father or her mother, she is trying to create this fairytale life for herself in order to do the opposite of what her parents have done. But because Janie is striving for this fairytale life, she will never be satisfied, because fairytales are not real. Fairytales are whimsical, extravagant, and fictitious. Most fairytales are love stories, and end with “And they lived Happily Ever After”. The main characters, often times girls,

Jasmine ignored the fact that Aladdin was a liar and a thief, Cinderella ignored the fact that Prince Charming did not even remember her face, and Mulan ignored the fact that Shane left her to die because she was a woman. When Janie first begins to think about love, sitting under the pear tree, she has an epiphone, and “understands” what marriage is supposed to be. She thinks that marriage is like a “dust-bearing bee [sinking] into the sanctum of a bloom” (11). Janie has this idea in her head that marriage is like one person staying still, looking beautiful, just being a receptacle, which is the flower blossom, whereas the other person does all of the hard, dirty work, which is the bee. This way of thinking is very illogical, and incorrect, yet it is what Janie thinks. Because she wants a fairytale ending, Janie will never be satisfied in her marriages, or with love. After she has this revelation, Janie sees “a glorious being coming up the road. In her former blindness she had known him as shiftless Johnny Taylor, tall and

Janie wants and seeks the love that she did not have as a child, and is blind to the flaws of the people she “loves”. This is why it is so easy for her to leave Logan Killicks because she never loved him, and she thinks that Joey Stark is her knight in shining armor, here to whisk her away to a far away place where they can build a life