Journal # 1

My image of Janie is one of a woman who has started to lose hope. She is by no means weak or compromising in her actions but there seems to be something broken in her. She still displays that she is strong by shrugging off insults and accusations that the people sitting on the porch throw at her "her speech was pleasant enough, but she kept walking straight on to her gate."(2) Even when she ignores those who accuse her she shows that she has lost the desire to care, so where some might see strength I see regression. The narrator it quite withdrawn from the sufferings of Jaine. he does not seem to take personal interest in her suffering but rather comments on it as if it were a stranger he is quietly observing. He shows this by not using much emotion in his speech and really uses most of his descriptive dialog to describe the stabbing questions of the people on the porch which is to draw attention to it as an important part of the book. I couldn't help enjoying the narrators parts as they lack the heavy dialect of the characters speech that feels like wading though a deep patch of mud. This contrast is used distance the narrator further from the characters.