“Janie’s train left too early in the day for the town to witness much, (...)” (Hurston, pg. 116). The idea of it “being too early in the day” means the sun had barely or was rising in the horizon, showcasing a change in the way the horizon is viewed. It went from the darkness of the night during her marriage to Jody to the clearness and light of day during her marriage to Tea Cake. Besides that, the absence of a mention of the time of day or even the sky during the period where Tea Cake got sick relates to how Janie lost perspective of her horizon during the period where her husband is invalidated. The following quote reinforces how Tea Cake is instrumental to her arrival at the horizon: “Tea Cake, with the sun for a shawl. (...) She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net” (Hurston, pg. 193). Evidently, Tea Cake was responsible for changing the way Janie viewed her horizon: it goes from a “little bit of a thing” to a “great fish-net” signifying how, by the end of the book, her satisfaction with her own self and her past marriage to Tea Cake had brought Janie the horizon:
“Janie’s train left too early in the day for the town to witness much, (...)” (Hurston, pg. 116). The idea of it “being too early in the day” means the sun had barely or was rising in the horizon, showcasing a change in the way the horizon is viewed. It went from the darkness of the night during her marriage to Jody to the clearness and light of day during her marriage to Tea Cake. Besides that, the absence of a mention of the time of day or even the sky during the period where Tea Cake got sick relates to how Janie lost perspective of her horizon during the period where her husband is invalidated. The following quote reinforces how Tea Cake is instrumental to her arrival at the horizon: “Tea Cake, with the sun for a shawl. (...) She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net” (Hurston, pg. 193). Evidently, Tea Cake was responsible for changing the way Janie viewed her horizon: it goes from a “little bit of a thing” to a “great fish-net” signifying how, by the end of the book, her satisfaction with her own self and her past marriage to Tea Cake had brought Janie the horizon: