Every girl dreams of a love at sixteen that is highly unrealistic, though through time she will develop a realistic view of what love really is. Janie’s experiences through two failed marriages will help her newly planted pear tree to grow into a full grown tree, her experiences at specific points in time will cause the tree to wilt and die showing her loss of belief in love. While at other times it will be full grown and thriving off its newly obtained knowledge and wisdom. These experiences will help Janie begin to realize that love isn’t just bees and pear trees, but rather struggle and learned life lessons.
The pear tree in their eyes were will play a significant role throughout the entire novel. What does the pear tree represent? The tree in Their Eyes Were Watching …show more content…
To Logan Janie was just a spoiled child who had to be taught how to be a wife so that she could be just like his first wife, and in the beginning Janie accepted the role. The “role” as one could call is not what Janie wanted to be she; she wanted to be just the housewife, though Logan didn’t want that. Doing all the chores that a housewife would do but Janie felt like that was all she needed to do. “If Ah kin haul de wood heah and chop it fuh yuh, look lak you oughta be able tuh tote it inside. Mah fust wife never bothered me ‘bout hoppin’ no wood nohow”. Logan wanted something different than Janie he wanted her to help plow the fields, and do some of the outside work, making Logan believe she wasn’t a partner just someone else to look after. Their contrasting views in their roles in the marriage will aid in the decline of their marriage, “You don’t need mah help out dere, Logan. Youse in yo’ place and Ah’m in mine”. In Logan’s opinion the fact that he keeps up with the farm works and provides water and logs for Janie is enough to demonstrate his love for Janie. Though Janie does not see it to be
The pear tree in their eyes were will play a significant role throughout the entire novel. What does the pear tree represent? The tree in Their Eyes Were Watching …show more content…
To Logan Janie was just a spoiled child who had to be taught how to be a wife so that she could be just like his first wife, and in the beginning Janie accepted the role. The “role” as one could call is not what Janie wanted to be she; she wanted to be just the housewife, though Logan didn’t want that. Doing all the chores that a housewife would do but Janie felt like that was all she needed to do. “If Ah kin haul de wood heah and chop it fuh yuh, look lak you oughta be able tuh tote it inside. Mah fust wife never bothered me ‘bout hoppin’ no wood nohow”. Logan wanted something different than Janie he wanted her to help plow the fields, and do some of the outside work, making Logan believe she wasn’t a partner just someone else to look after. Their contrasting views in their roles in the marriage will aid in the decline of their marriage, “You don’t need mah help out dere, Logan. Youse in yo’ place and Ah’m in mine”. In Logan’s opinion the fact that he keeps up with the farm works and provides water and logs for Janie is enough to demonstrate his love for Janie. Though Janie does not see it to be