9. “She sits high, but she looks low.”
Janie acts like she’s all high and mighty, but her choice in people is low. Page 3
10. “There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight.”
Minds are full of different words that float around. Page 24
11. “They don’t need to worry about me and my overhalls,”
Overalls are what Janie wore when she returned home. She wears them because Tea Cake got her into wearing them. Page 7
12. “Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone.”
Life is like a tree. Page 8
13. “She thought a while and decided that her conscious life had commenced at Nanny’s gate.”
The gate is the symbol of Janie becoming a woman and getting her first kiss. Page 10
14. “The new moon had been up and down three times before she got worried in mind.”
A lot of time had passed before Janie became worried about her marriage. Page 22
15. “The morning road air was like a new dress.”
She was done with the old, in with the new. Page 32
16. “From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything. A bee for her bloom.”
Janie was going to treat every day like spring, and Joe Starks was the bee to her bloom.
17. “The rest of the town looked like servants’ quarters surrounding the “big house”
Joe’s new house reminds the African Americans of their past slavery. Page 47
18. “He’s the wind and we’se de grass.”
Joe is the leader and everyone else does whatever Joe wants. Page 49
19. “Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.”
Every day was a new chance at something. Page 51
20. “Somebody near about making summertime out of lonesomeness.”
Janie learned to find something good in her life. Page 77
21. “She was a rut in the road. Plenty of life beneath the surface but it was kept beaten down by the wheels.”
Janie was still the person she used to be on the inside; Joe wouldn’t let her be that person anymore. Page 76
22. “But the stillness was the sleep of swords.”
The stillness in the house wasn’t peaceful. Page 81
23. “Death, that strange being with the huge square toes who lived way in the West.”
Death is a thing that no one wants to think about or visit. Page 84
24. “Before she slept that night she burnt up every one of her head rags,”
Janie was through with her past and ready for new changes. Page 89
25. “Six months of wearing black passed and not one suitor had ever gained the house porch.”
Six months after Joe’s death, she was still yet to re-marry. Page 91
26. “Jes lak uh lil girl wid her Easter dress on.”
It makes him as happy as when he sees cute little girls. Page 98
27. “Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.”
The moon rises to end the day. Page 99
28. “Ah’m born but Ah ain’t dead.”
Janie still has her soul, she might be broken, but she isn’t dead. Page 106
29. “You got de keys to de kingdom.”
Janie is the best thing that ever happened to him. For him, she is the key. Page 109
30. “The next morning Pheoby picked her way over to Janie’s house like a hen to a neighbor’s garden.”
Pheoby took her time going to Janie’s. She was stalling. Page 112
31. “Ah ain’t grievin’ so why do Ah hafta mourn?”
Janie isn’t upset about Joe’s death, so why does she have to wear black and mourn for him. Page 113
32. “The room inside looked like the mouth of an alligator- gaped wide open to swallow something down.”
The room seemed ready to swallow Janie. Page 118
33. “So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.”
Janie finally felt comfortable enough to let her soul out. Page 128
34. “To Janie’s strange eyes, everything in the Everglades was big and new.”
Janie wasn’t used to what she was seeing. Page 129
35. “The rick black earth clinging to bodies and biting the skin like ants.”
The soil stuck to everyone, and stung their bodies. Page 131
36. “Janie never thought at all. She just acted on feelings.”
Janie didn’t think of a possible excuse, she just acted on how she felt about everything. Page 137
37. “You’se something tuh make uh man forgit tuh git old and forgit tuh die.”
Janie is the most important thing that ever happened to Tea Cake. She makes him forget everything. Page 138
38. “He wuz a white folks’ nigger.”
He was an enemy to his own race. Page 142
39. “He laughed a lungless laugh.”
He laughed a fake laugh without any joy. Page 144
40. “Mrs. Turner saw with dismay that Tea Cake’s taking them out was worse than letting them stay in.”
Tea Cake was making more trouble than the drunken men were. Page 151
41. “It got so that the floor was knee-deep with something no matter where you put your foot down.”
The floor was covered with something everywhere they walked.
42. “The winds, to the tiniest, lisping baby breath had left the earth.”
There was no wind at all, not even a breeze. Page 155
43. “They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against crude walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His.”
The people were wondering if God was testing them. Page 160
44. “No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.”
No hour lasts forever, but even though it doesn’t last forever, you can cry. Page 184
45. “She went on in her overalls. She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.”
Janie was too upset to dress in black like you are supposed to when someone dies. Page 189
46. “Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.”
Love can change. Page 191
47. “There was a finished silence after that so that for the first time they could hear the wind picking at the pine trees.”
The silence was quiet, but peaceful. Page 192
48. “She pulled in her horizon like a great fish net.”
She welcomed the new day happily. Page 193
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beautiful imagery in her story, and that really helped me enjoy the story even more.
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