The way the people talk about Joe says a lot about his character and how he comes off to people. The people have a sort of love hate relationship with him because they don't like how powerful he is and how he runs the town, which makes them feel inferior. However, if he didn't do the things for their town that he does they wouldn't be where they are. They way the other characters speak about Joe helps to characterize him. They refer to his superior intellect, which I think also plays more into how he thinks he is like the God of the town, and really believes he is better than everyone. His feeling of superiority plays into his relations with Janie as well as other characters in the book.
2.) the spirit of marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor. It was there to shake hands whenever company came to visit, but never went back inside the bedroom again.(Hurston, 71) Personification.
3.) "...It's so easy to make yo'self out God Almighty when you aint got nothin' tuh strain against but women and chickens." (Hurston, 75)
This quote from Janie is directed at men in general, but mostly to Joe. Unlike when Hurston makes Joe speak, Hurston capitalizes God when Janie says it. The capitalizationof God shows what Janie believes in, and in this defiant quote by her when she was not even supposed to be giving her two cents, she sort of shows who she bows down to; God and not men. This shows the female perspective of submission, and how Janie feels about men, especially Joe. Janie is sort of belittling Joe's power over her as well as the town by blatantly telling him that he's really not very significant for only trying to control women and chickens. This quote also offers conflict between Joe and Janie, as well as between men and women, which is found through out Hurston's novel.
4.) She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen. (Hurston, 72) foreshadowing
5.) "Now, Daisy, you know jim, and Dave, and Lum is 'bout tuh kill one 'nother 'bout you" (Hurston, 68). Parallel structure.
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