when Ah speak. Don’t you set dere poutin’ wid me after all Ah done went through for you!” She is basically telling Janie that she can’t marry Johnny Taylor, the one she is exploring her womanhood with, the one she wants, and that she must marry Logan, for protection. Towards the end of the book, Janie resents her grandmother for “living” her life for her and planning her future. To find out what will happen in a persons future, they need to live their life on their own and not have it planned for them. They can’t be told how to live there lives in order to succeed. To succeed, we need to learn from our own mistakes, and live with the weight of our decisions. This is exactly what Janie did in her marriage to Logan. She did as she was told, or rather, expected to do. Janie didn’t want to marry Logan, but if it made her grandmother happy, then by all means, why not give it a shot. If it meant that she’d be secure. In her marriage to Logan, she found out that that’s not what she wanted. Janie wanted love, happieness, comfort and enjoyment. She didn’t want her first marriage to be like a prison sentence. “Did marriage end the cosmic loneliness of the unmated, did it compel love like the sun the day?” This is asking if marriage made love for Janie as the sun makes the day for the world. Is the basis of love marriage...just as the basis for day is the sun. To Janie, this was not true. She did not feel as though she loved Logan, and that’s all she really wanted. She didn’t want to be treated as the rest of the world was treated. She wanted to be treated as an individual and not as a slave. She was a slave to marriage. She didn’t want to be there, where there was no warmth. Joe Starks stole Janie away from Logan. He saved her from the boringness of their dull marriage. He woed her with his words of kindness. He promised her ...
