- Reader response: How do you perceive Janie? How do you perceive the narrator? Be thorough and thoughtful and use textual evidence to defend your answer.
Janie is perceived as a beautiful ( "[...] her firm buttocks like she had grape fruits... still it was a hope that she might fall to their level some day" (pg 2). ),
middle-aged women ( "She's way past forty to my knowledge, Pheoby." (pg 3). )
who have suffered some hardships and still can stand strong ( "Aw, pretty good, Ah'm tryin' to soak some uh de tiredness and de dirt outa mah feet." (pg 4). ).
The narrator is perceived as a situation-creator. In the beginning, the narrator starts the reader on a journey from man to woman. And the woman is then placed within a situation of grief ("So the beginning of this was... their eyes flung open in judgement." (pg 1). ). But later creates a situation of comforting ("Pheoby hurried on off with... back porch with the lamps all filled and the chimneys cleaned." (pg 4). ).
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