g what is right for her and she will not let society stop her. Ah aint grievin so why do Ah hafta mourn? Tea Cake love me in blue, so Ah wears it. Jody aint never in his life picked out no color for me. De world picked out black and white for mournin, Joe didnt. So Ah wasnt wearin it for him. Ah was wearin it for de rest of yall.Page 113Again it is society that keeps us down. We have to follow along with what is deemed appropriate, leaving what we feel deep down inside not to be said. But Janie does not approve of this kind of living. She wants to do her own thing and I dont blame her at all.Ah done lived Grandmas way, now Ah means tuh live mine.Page 114Janie has done what Nanny wanted all her life. She married the man who could take care of her rather that Johnny Taylor, whom she first kissed at the gatepost. Love was set aside for security. And now that Jody is gone and Logan is not present and, Nanny has died she can start a new. Because she knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. Tea Cakes was a new day, another chance for happiness. It was hard to love a woman that always made you feel so wishful.Page 116It is always easier to see things when you take a step back, when you move into reality. Janie is living in her dream world. She is ever so happy that she has found a man who loves her and that he wants to make a life with her. However all the onlookers see Janies hopefulness and see the other side; that she could get hurt again. It becomes hard for the people around her to enlighten her to the truth or the possibilities of what could happen. It sometimes is easier to learn the hard way. He drifted off into sleep and Janie looked down onto him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.Page 128She is like a butterfly; at first she crated a sheltered life in her self-generated cocoon. It was safe, she was out of harms way. Sh...
