Summary Of Janie By Zora Neale

As Janie returns to the town the townspeople criticize her attire and her previous love life and speculate what had happened to her lover. The town seems to be resentful about her return and try to pinpoint the reason of her return. This gives me the first look at how the townspeople seem to be zealous of her past and truly are critical of the choices she makes.
This piece of symbolism shows aspects of Janie’s life that have had positive effects and negative affects on her life and her life choices. This allows me to understand her mistakes and watch out for improvements that she made along the way.
Janie seems to have high expectations for her future but does seems to pursue them in the beginning of the story. She seems to reluctant but wonders what the world will have in store for her as she remarks on this journey. Yet, she choose to be patient and waits for the right time for her journey to begin.
This gives the foreshadowing of a sense of illusion and disposition.
The sun and the dark sky and Logan gives the disposition of a future event where something doesn’t turn out to be was is was before. This could be possible example with the illusion of Janie’s marriage.
Jody seems to be unhappy to the fact that everyone believes that Janie's is his daughter. However, Jody’s attitude at this point in the story seems to be mainly relaxing as he soon mold Janie into his ideal “perfect wife”. Janie hates Jody domineering nature. Jody refuses to accepts Janie for what she is and instead, he tries to shape her into his image of the type of woman that he wants. He controls her by not allowing to be firm in her identity and physical aspects such as her
hair.

Soon, Janie feels lost and defeated in her marriage. She chooses to give Jody what ever he wants and decide to ignore what she truly wants.She has the urge to leave him,but she chooses not to in the end. This shows me her detaching feelings and reveals doubtfulness about her once joyful life that she now has grown to hate.

The disintegration of Jody and Janie’s marriage led to a complete let down in Janie’s eyes. Janie’s interest in the marriage has already been lost at this point. She loses hope in him as it becomes clear to her that
Jody will not realize her dreams. Shr then choose to go with the flow of Jody’s choices and becomes dependent with him.

As Janie beings her period of mourning after her husband’s death she feels released and joyous but maintains a face of sadness for the outside world. This seems to be determined by the fact she now ties her hair into a braid again. However, she begins to hate her Nanna for giving her materialistic views on the world and marriage. Janie begins to develop her character again as she meets Tea Cake. His arrival brings her to a second stage in her development, as she begins to socialize with others she becomes more introspective and self-aware. Janie appears to be more reluctant about the the type of men that she socialize with most likely due to the fact that he deceased husband, Jody was controlling Janie doesn’t want to be controlled by another man again. To me the shows a sign of maturity of Janie character.
Janie has begun to see Tea Cake as a person of great interest. She doesn’t seem to care about how the town doesn’t fully approve of her relationship with Tea Cake. This contrasts for Janie's attachment with Tea Cake with her relationship to the town as a whole and further explores Janie’s personal growth.

Jamie is still reluctant to trust Tea Cake even after they had gotten married. This shows to be that yet despite all the things that Janie has thrown away for Tea Cake she still refuses to trust him. Tea Cake seems to manipulate Janie this into make her love him more and have a desire to never be without him. In this chapter he does something neither Logan nor Jody is able to accomplish: getting Janie to work out of her own free will. However, this could be manipulation or apart of Tea Cake’s natural personality that the author has put him with.

Janie has the fear of distrust as Nunkie runs off with Tea Cake very commonly give her a feeling of distrust and worry. She is afraid that she will lose Tea Cake to Nunkie and that one day Tea Cake will leave her forever. This shows me Janie's envy which is a great contrast between the one she had with Jody.
Mrs. Turner gives the reader a glimpse of self-hate and the prejudice views in this era. Mrs. Turner has put herself apart from the idea that she is black and chooses to give her self-hate as a way to show that she claims that she isn’t like others, but she choose to use her disability to set her apart from the rest of the African-American Community.
The act that Janie allowed Tea Cake to do was surprising to me as I expected her to fight back and to not be releculant with what was on her mind. I feel that Janie allowed him to beat her to show submissiveness and that she gives him her full trust in a weird way. The hurricane becomes the clear source of the book’s title and clearly illuminates Janie’s conflict in the novel: Janie’s law and religion defining quest to find her place in the world among confusing, unpredictable, and often threatening forces.

This moment right here I feel was Janie first true taste of racism. Her mulatto skin color has given her the advantage through the story with marriage, choices , and rebuttals with others until after the hurricane when Tea Cake had to go and identify each of the their bodies as black or white.
This final chapter shows Janie at full strength and utmost self-assurance. She is easily able to ignore the community of Eatonville that has given her nothing but trouble. Her melancholy settles showing that she has not failed to reach her horizon, but rather allow it to demonstrate her strength that she gained along her journey.