Hurston uses the imagery of the inside of Janie’s mind to display Janie breaking through a wall of sorts and displaying that one must go search for their lost objects if one wants to find themselves again. Some of the men were talking near Janie about what they would do had a women embarrassed them in front of people and that is when “Janie did what she had never done before, that is, thrust herself into the conversation”. (75) The word never means that an event or action will at no time occur in the past or future. Hurston uses this vocab to express the fact that Janie was not supposed to “thrust herself into the conversation” but by doing so she defied the very definition of this word and defied Joe at the same time. Janie justifies her rebellious
