The pastoral in the novel appears as imagery too. In the novel, a pear-tree is utilized as icon for the female protagonist by Hurston to recast the pastoral relation of women and nature as one way of the active empowerment rather than submissive subjugation. While this tree symbolically replicates the growth, energy and liveliness of Hurston’s heroine Janie, the habitat also has a content effect on the growth of energetic, dynamic and independent female identities. For Janie Starks, the authoritarian restrictions of man-made structures are eventually modified by the infinite opportunities of wild nature. Hurston, thus, associates qualities of independence, equality, and fluidity with nature and suggests that these qualities are nurtured and
