"She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees..."
-As a sixteen year old, Janie has a revelation and imagines marriage as an extremely intense experience filled with lust and passion. Her language, through alliterations, is mirroring her experience.
Logan Killicks is, in fact, "killing" Janie's dream and desire to reach the horizon. "He don't even never mention nothin' pretty." Janie is very dissapointed with her arranged marriage. She was just following Nanny's command.
When Joe Starks is introduced, Janie is attracted to his "big voice." She believes his power and high ambition will help her reach the horizon. "Thank yuh fuh yo' compliments, but mah wife don't know nothin' 'bout no speech-makin'. Jody begins to silence Janie's voice. Thus, Janie grows angry and insults Jody. After Janie's rant, Jody eventually dies from a tumor.
When Janie meets Tea Cake, she believes he could be a pear tree to a blossom. Janie feels like Tea Cake's equal treatment of her and his love will definetly take her to the horizon she desires to reach. Tea Cake makes Janie feel equal by playing checkers with her. He also provides an adventeruous side by traveling to the Everglades. Altough the hurrican physically destroyed Janie and Tea Cake's relationship, Janie has reached her horizon.
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