Their Eyes Were Watching God 2

the use of nature pervades the story. We see it in such instances when Janie talks to nature and especially the part where night itself takes over the narration. At the end of chapter four, hey describe the sun going down in the same spot as when the night came up. This was stated immediately after Janie was remarried to Joe. This could mean a few different things. It could be interpreted as her newfound happiness or euphoria with her new husband compared to the mundane qualities that permeated her old marriage. This comparison to nature is almost as she had discovered a new beginning, a new life. The last paragraph in chapter four could also represent her transition from girl to woman. I know earlier in the book when she was kissed she stated that her childhood has ceased from that moment on, but she still retained some child-like qualities, such as when she stated she still like sweet tasting things. Maybe it's a foreshadow of the events to come. Like Harvey Dent stated in The Dark Knight, "The night is always darkest before the dawn,  but the dawn is coming". Well, it seems as if she has come from troubled experiences in the past, but now the cycle is about to repeat itself again,with new terrible experiences in store. 

Their Eyes Were Watching God 1

When Janie returns to her home, it seems as if she is treated the same by the whites as well as the blacks. Obviously the whites were racist to her due to her high levels of melanin, while the black females thought her body seemed too sexual, due to the size of her hips and breasts. It's ironic that she should be ostracized from both groups, it just points out the level of despair of the need one had to reassure themselves in the south. I think Janie was talked about because the other black women had to have that feeling that they were better than somebody else. As it was pointed out in the narrative, black women were at the bottom  of the social pyramid at that time for being black and for female. When it comes down to it, she was rejected for her looks by whites and blacks. These polar groups of people didn't have much on common then, but they both had discriminated against people on the basis of their looks.