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1. Unlike Janie’s previous husbands, Tea Cake treats Janie with compassion and respect. In addition, he loves Janie for her personality instead of her looks and her role as a woman (housewife). 2. The speech characteristic that Tea Cake encourages Janie with is truth.
She expected to obey for her husband like others. “He ordered Janie to tie up her hair around the store” reveals that she did everything to his happiness not for her. Even though she is a wife of a mayor, she didn’t get any privilege rather she lost her social relationship with other people. She lived under the dominance of her husband
With Jody Starks, Janie became very dependent because Jody muffed her free spiritedness and did not allow her to speak her voice. Janie became helpless and powerless towards him. With Tea Cake, Janie became independent because he gave her the respect that she never got in a man. He also taught her how to shoot a gun, which made her potent and be in control of her life . Janie’s character change is important to the whole story because it shows how back in the 1930s women were easily controlled by men and how that a change of who they were as a person.
During Janie's first marriage, she outwardly conforms to the societal view of marriage, and the domestic wife, while inwardly questioning if she can learn to disregard her true
She learned to never give up and to never stay still, she knows she can always do better. Janie's dreams were opposite from her nanny, her nanny just wanted Janie to be someone who is taken care of just so she can be sitting down all day,
Janie explains that she does not regret anything she has or done with Tea Cake. She would not have done anything differently to save her life. This love and marriage has the most impact on
Janie is the symbol of feminism and independence for women in the novel and shows her heroism in many instances. Some of her heroic qualities include determination, empathy, and
After leaving Logan and marrying Joe, she was very happy and seemed to be in love but soon after becomes a “trophy wife” and was just going through the motions of marriage. “No matter what Jody did, she said nothing. She had learned how to talk some and leave some… She got nothing from Jody except what money could buy, and she was giving away what she didn’t value”(Huston, 76). At this point Janie had fully accepted the fact that she wasn’t going to have love in her marriage, and didn’t really care. At this point Janie’s character starts to develope into a more independent woman who cared less about what he husband wanted and more about what she wanted.
Janie's marriage with Tea cake was met with unconditional love compared with Joe starks marriage met with resentment. - Page 31 Chapter
Thus it is still possible to see Tea Cake as having a degree of control over Janie until the moment of his death. In each of her relationships, we watch Janie lose parts of herself under the forces of male domination. The men are not the only characters who see the traditional take on gender relations, where the men are dominant, and the women are obedient, as necessary and
She meets Tea Cake, falls in love, and later marries him. This marriage is by far the most special and unique marriage Janie has had. Her relationship with Tea Cake is her first true love; which consists of affection, happiness, understanding and everything else that follows. This marriage makes Janie feel like she has a second chance in life to relive her youth. Janie has lots of fun and is truly blessed and happy with Tea Cake.
Finally, she married Tea Cake who showed her what it was like to be loved and feel love. In each of these marriages, Janie fights for her independence that was previously denied from her. She refuses to give up on her dream for true love and is only satisfied after she finds it with Tea
By this point of the novel, Janie’s journey has ended. It started at the pear tree where she first discovered love and her sexuality, and concludes with the package of the seeds. Concluding with the package of seeds symbolizes Janie’s opportunity to start a new journey, one that no longer has to do with her fulfilling her teenage hopes. To wrap up her journey, Janie tells her life story to her friend Pheoby. As Janie is speaking to Pheoby, she says, “So Ah’m back home agin and Ah’m satisfied tuh be heah.
Character Analysis Essay In Flannery O’Conner’s story “A God Man is Hard to Find,” the grandmother who is the central character in the story is a manipulator, she likes to have everything her way and she is very deceitful. From the time that they loaded up the car up until the family’s tragic deaths, the grandmother tries her hardest to have everything go exactly how she wants it and she is willing to manipulate her family to have just that. This is evident when she makes it clear to the family that she does not want to go to Florida, when she disregards her sons request to not have the family cat brought along on the trip and also when she tries to manipulate the Misfit when they have their tragic encounter.
She questions why Janie would marry a dark man like Tea Cake. Mrs. Turner falsely assumes, like the rest of the people form the town, that Janie only married Tea Cake for his money because she could not possibly love him. Janie informs Mrs. Turner that her assumption is incorrect because Tea Cake was not wealthy when they met, and he is the only person that has made her truly
