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.