Jody has just passed on, and this should be a sad time in Janie's life, but yet she does not act as if she misses him. The passage has a very sentimental tone, as Janie looks back on her life. She looks at herself in the mirror, observing how far she has come in life. The passage also uses a bit of figurative language to explain that Janie is pretending to mourn over Jody's death. "Then she starched, and ironed her face" (Hurston, 87). It explains that she is forcing an expression onto her face that isn't true to her feelings. Some time after the passage, the story tells about how Janie is enjoying being lonesome for once, and how she is rejecting all of the suitors that come to her. This further emphasizes Janie's feeling of relief over Jody's death.
How does Janie express her freedom? when she is finally released how is she free?
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