e. She has come to be an independent woman with voice, identity, and a conscious. Janie now knows the truth and love of what life is made up of. “Increasingly Janie’s identity comes not in rebellion against someone else, but from the pleasure she takes in her reencounter with the world. Left to herself, she will not sit anywhere; hers is to explore, to move out from the sanctum of the pear tree” (Callahan 106)....
