"Freedom"

In this passage, on page 87 in Their eyes where Watching God, Joe had just passed away and Janie is pondering her past and finding a new found "freedom." In specific, it discusses Janie looking in the mirror and seeing her young self and finally feeling like she is a beautiful women, which Joe never let her feel like. In the second line it says, "years ago, she had told her girl self to wait for her in the looking glass...The young girl was gone, but a handsome women had taken her place." After this, she lets down her hair and brings the town in to see Joe. Some of the main ideas in this passage is Janie's new freedom after Joe passes away. Her new freedom mainly allowed her to wear her hair down and feel beautiful. Joe never wanted her to be presumptuous or showy. Janie questions her sorrow and guilt for not feeling worse that her husband has died, but also questions the you girl in the mirror and is happy to see a handsome women looking back at her. The tone in this passage is "blue" and depressing. This is because a horrible tragedy has just occurred. In addition it changes to a joyous mood when Janie lets down her hair and finally has confidence and freedom, which Joe stole from her. Finally, the speaker in the passage is not Janie, but the narrator who is talking about Janie is thinking and doing. The narrator is doing the talking since it tells Janie's perspective better she is not the one talking about herself. The speaker is reliable since it is specific events and thought Janie is having and is not based on another persons perspective or bias opinion. In this passage the main idea discusses Joe's death but it lads to Janie's realization of a new freedom.
~Whitney Marshall 1B