Zora Neale Hurston portrays the transformation of darkness to light as Janie maturing into a woman. In this passage, Janie was finishing sharing her entire life story to Pheoby, her best friend. Pheoby acknowledged the reality of Janie’s story and “hugged Janie real hard and cut the darkness in flight.” The darkness was Janie’s guilt and shame from her youthful past. Janie finally could escape the shadows when she became truthful of her past and now there is room for light. In Janie’s bedroom, she could feel the strength and warm of the light as if it is a “spark of sun-stuff washing her face in fire”. The light reveals that it is stronger than the darkness as, “her shadow behind fell black and headlong down the stairs.” The wind from the windows