Comparing Nanny And Logan Killicks

Nanny and Logan Killicks both play a very important part in Janie’s early life, but in very different ways. Nanny wants what is best for Janie and does everything she can to shield Janie from the rougher areas of life. Nanny was raised much worse off, and wants above all, for Janie to have a better life and childhood than she did. Nanny wants Janie’s life to be easy, but in wanting the best for her granddaughter, Nanny fails to acknowledge that Janie is growing into a woman and cannot be sheltered from the world forever. She does not allow Janie to find her own path by making mistakes and working to resolve them as she did. She believes that a good life is one that is steady and firm, in the way hers never was. Granny is getting old and wants, …show more content…
She was like a the pear tree; just beginning to bloom and just tasting the first of summer, she wanted to find someone that made her happy and treated her right, not someone who made her indifferent and treated her decently. Janie wanted more than Logan Killicks has and more than Granny believes she can get. Logan is a good husband, but not for Janie, in many years when Janie has seen more and knows more, perhaps Logan would have been a good husband, but for Janie so young and filled with the fires of life, and Logan is nothing more than a wet blanket. Janie doesn’t know how to tell her grandmother this because she knows her granny has always wanted the best for her. Logan Killicks had a face that looked old and worn out. She obviously does not find him appealing and even goes to say “He look like some ole skullhead in de grave yard”(13). Janie and the pear tree are both in bloom and the beginning of their lives. Early life should not be paired with sullen and unimpassioned death, and Janie should not be married to a man who would try to snuff out her life when she has so much more of it to