Willy and Charlies Relationship

Willy and Charlie have a very peculiar relationship. it is interesting becuase not only does Willy have no respect for Charlie but he can not seem to hold a conversation with him or his son. Willy is general mean to Charlie and comes across as insulted about whatever Charlie says. In their first conversation Willy begins to hallucinate that his dead brother Ben is there. He tries to hold a conversation with Ben while talking to Charlie and while playing Cards. This does not work out too well and end up with a typical end for Willy and Charlie or Bernard's interactions. At one point in their interactions they swap insults with Willy calling Charlie disgusting then it ends with Charlie telling him he should be ashamed of himself.

Happy and Biff

Happy and Biff come into the novel after a short intro from their parents. They are both boys and both fully grown and are returning home for a night and sleep in their old beds. They both had just gotten back in from a double date. Happy and Biff in my mind are both unreliable characters because they have no real directions for their lives. Happy is moving up the chain of a store but is also boinking every girl that he sees on the way up. I do not think that he is happy because he is so ready to abandon his job and just go out west with Biff but I also think that he loves being the guy that can get any girl in New York. It is also important in my mind that he is prideful because he is not willing to leave until he gets the chance to walk into the store as a high roller. Biff on the other hand is not reliable because he can not settle down. He gets stage fright anytime spring rolls around. He cannot keep a job and thus is a 34 year old without a calling. I do not think either of them are truly happy because they are not doing everything they want which for Biff is owning a ranch out west and for happy being that powerful man that everyone sees walk into the store.

Janie's Voice

Why is it that in this last chapter Janie is not doing her own talking? In this chapter during Janie’s statements are said from the third person not told as a story by Janie as the rest of the novel has been. This is peculiar because it shows that Janie has told her whole story and has lived all that she wants to live. She has gone through her experiences to find the man that gives her the love that she wants. The pear tree love that is so forbidden at the beginning of the novel is found by Janie and now she has no more story to tell. Because Tea Cake has been able to give her the love that she wants and deserves she is able to finish her story telling and thus the author has to finish what she says.

There Eyes Were Watching God

There eyes were watching god as the title truely comes into play in this novel in chapter 18. In this chapter the indians warn that there is a large hurricane coming however every one in the muck decides to disregard what they say. One night when everyone is with Tea Cake gambling the hurricane comes. Instead of fleeing to high ground the two decide to stay and this is where the title comes in. They littlerally thrust their fates into the hands of God and keep their eyes focused on him.

Tea Cake

Tea Cake is different from the other men that Janie has been with. He is a special guy for her and he has sufficiently wooed her. He also has a hint of the lover under the pear tree that Janie has been looking for. He is a kind man and he treats her as an equal, as is shown by how he asks her if she wants to work. Janie accepts and is happy to work with him because unlike the other guys that she has been with Tea cake does not seem to have a purpose set in mind for having her around. For logan it was work and for Jodie it was to be Mrs. Mayor. However tea cake is jsut tea cake and that is what about him is so intriguing to Janie.

Tea cake is different from the other mne that Janie has been with. He treeats her well and even has that hint of pear tree lover that

At the beginging of chapter 9

The beginign of chapter nine introduces us into a tell tale story of how god created man. It says that he was created so magnificent that all of the angels got jealous and cut the human up into millions of peices. This directly relates to Janie in that she feels that Jody treats her like she was at one time magnificent but that now she is tainted.

The Donkey

The donkey is a direct reference and connection to how Janie's life is going. the donkey is treatd like fcrap by all of the town people just like janie is. However, Jodie decides to buy the donkey and then sets it free. The donkey soon wanders around and dies. This is significant because it is a direct connection with Janie as well .This donkey went out with his boots on just fighting like Janie is doing the whole time.

Jodie

Jodie's personality is a very harsh one. He is supposedly this great outlook for her life however he turns out not to be all that she expects. He is thought to be the new sun for her a new begining however he turns out to be a major dissapointment.

eyes were watching god #2

One of the constant themes in this book is nature as a metaphor. It is plain to see with all of the examples of the different trees and the last paragraph in chapter does nothing more than further said point.
The last paragraph in chapter 4 gives an illustration of Janie and he husband at the time, Joe, sitting on the porch watching the sun go down "into the same crack from which the dark emerged". This could be a metaphor for several differnt things because of how much the porch has been talked about already this book. To Janie the porch is an illustration of the woman that she wants to be completely because she is just sitting on the porch watching the sun go down. I think it also foreshadow her love which is really corny and i really regret having to type it but i honestly think this is it. It shows that her love for Joe will cease to exist just as the sun does on the horizon.