Zachary BaileyMarch 23rd, 2009
Post 5
Internal or External Conflict
Janie's Internal Conflict
Throughout the entire book, Janie is filled with constant inner turmoil. As a girl Janie is told by her grandmother that she is going to be married to Logan Killicks, and Janie is much less than happy about that "the vision of Logan Killicks was desecrating the pear tree, but Janie didn’t know how to tell nanny that"(page 14). Despite her feeling in the matter, Janie is married to Logan
Eventually a strange named Jody comes along, fitting into Janie's dream of some majestic man to come sweep her off her feet. After seeing Jody for a week Janie decides to run off with him after he asks her to leave with him. For a while, things between Janie and Jody are great, and everything is all rainbows and butterflies until after a few years in Eatonville. In Eatonville, Janie is slowly crushed by Jody's ego, and the cruel way it makes him treat her. However rather then do anything about it or express her feelings, Janie "SO gradually, she pushed her teeth together and learned to hush. The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to the parlor. It was there to shake hands whenever company came to visit, but it never went back to the bedroom again. So she put something there to represent the spirit like a Virgin Mary image in a church." (page 71) simply bottles everything up and learns to live with it.
Janie's entire life up to the point when she meets Tea Cake is just one big mess of inner turmoil. Despite all the things Janie dislikes or wishes were different she rarely every speaks up and never holds her ground, she just goes from one thing the next, grinning and baring it, and never standing up for herself.
Eventually a strange named Jody comes along, fitting into Janie's dream of some majestic man to come sweep her off her feet. After seeing Jody for a week Janie decides to run off with him after he asks her to leave with him. For a while, things between Janie and Jody are great, and everything is all rainbows and butterflies until after a few years in Eatonville. In Eatonville, Janie is slowly crushed by Jody's ego, and the cruel way it makes him treat her. However rather then do anything about it or express her feelings, Janie "SO gradually, she pushed her teeth together and learned to hush. The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to the parlor. It was there to shake hands whenever company came to visit, but it never went back to the bedroom again. So she put something there to represent the spirit like a Virgin Mary image in a church." (page 71) simply bottles everything up and learns to live with it.
Janie's entire life up to the point when she meets Tea Cake is just one big mess of inner turmoil. Despite all the things Janie dislikes or wishes were different she rarely every speaks up and never holds her ground, she just goes from one thing the next, grinning and baring it, and never standing up for herself.
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