This excerpt demonstrates the significant and the strong connection between Janie and nature. Indeed, the seeds here does not only remind her of her beloved husband, Tea Cake or they just symbolize his living spirit, but also they reflect her sexual awareness, her feminine identity, and her searching for self-fulfillment. From the beginning of the novel until its ending, Janie shows her admiration to the vegetation life especially the tree and its leafs, roots, and seeds. When Janie was only 16 years old, she climbs the pear tree in her grandmother’s backyard and she becomes so astonished by the beautiful picture of a bee on the blossom of the blooming pear tree. “Janie had spent most of the day under a blossoming pear tree in the back-yard”(12-13).
