Comment on the Response - Essay Example

Response I like the way you have interpreted the book, it was similar to my ideas in many ways, for example, the fact that the role of women, their status and the tradition of marriage have been adequately described in the book. The power distance between males and females as you mentioned is very clear. However, I also feel that the book does show that a divorce was within the power of a bold woman such as Janie. It shows that even in those times and was not as bid a taboo as it is in many developing countries even today.

I strongly agree with the point on the identity discovery process. I feel Janie strongly identified herself with nature. The fact that she related love to the relationship between the bees and the tree and the point where she allows a bug to walk on her face just to feel the legs of the bug makes one feel that Janie identified herself with nature. The fact that she found herself in conflict with her inner self when she was the mayor’s wife was a beautiful depiction of a situation which many of us feel time and again when confronted by different situations in life.

I had also mentioned in my review that the language was hard to understand at first, due to the African dialect. I am not really sure whether that was the lesson which Hurston was trying to give about the fact that women should rule their own lives because after Janie did what she wanted her end was not one to be envied, she had to kill her husband, the one she had loved, but then again may be you are right in saying this because the book is centered around her feelings and dilemmas.