Mary Hurston Human Nature Analysis
Mary Helen Washington points out in her book that after seven years of marriage, Janie “wasn’t petal-open anymore” (67) with her husband, showing her alienation from the empowering aspects of nature and from her own inner nature, as it were. Hurston, actually, cleverly unblends the descriptions of human nature (as in an individual’s fundamental character) and Nature (as in the flora and fauna of the environment) that she joins in Janie’s original pear-tree