My Thesis

Why Janie has failed to have a stable relationship

6-8 Sentences

In Chapter 3 Nanny, Jainie's grandmother, dies, her final words being, "Lawd, you know mah heart.  Ah done de best ah could do.  De rest is up to you."  It seems that she has placed way to much faith in Jainie's new husband, Mr. Killiks.  She places all of her trust in Mr. Killiks to care and love her yet she seems oblivious to how abusive and how Jainie will obviously never be happy with him.  Her complete ignorance to this flaw and Jainies interests causes Jainie to leave her husband and run off with Joe.  Nanny also seems to be placing Jainie with all the short comings of her life and the things that her life failed to have, love, happiness, marriage, and wealth.  

My responses

1.  This quotation is important because it leads into the second part of the chapter where Nanny and Janie talk and fight about her and marrage.  Its also important because it sets the backlight for the later quotation, [pg 17] "so de white man throw down the load and tell the nigger man tuh pic it up.  He pick it up because he have to, but he don't tote it.  He hand it to his womanfolks.  De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see.  Ah been prayin' fuh it tuh be diffrent wid you.  Lawd, Lawd, Lawd."

2.  This quotation is important because it mocks the traditional idea of the loyal wife with her husband and replaces it with the idea of the relaxed and happy wife (or ex-wife)