The thing made itself into pictures and hung around Janie's bedside all night long. Anyhow, she wasn't going back to Eatonville to be laughed at and pitied. She had ten dollars in her pocket and twelve hundred in the bank. But oh God, don't let Tea Cake be off somewhere hurt and Ah not know nothing about it. And God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lad dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.
Janie dozed off to sleep but she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. he peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red. but pretty soon, he laid all that aside and went about his business dressed all in white. But it was always going to be dark to Janie if Tea Cake didn't soon come back. She got out of the bed but a chair couldn't hold her. she dwindled down on the floor her head in a rocking chair.
Tone: Somber, hopeless
Parallels between Annie Tyler and Janie: They both start off in bed, and they were both waiting for something or someone. Annie Tyler also had a lot of younger loves, just like Janie, and in the end she lost it all.
Biblical References: The words highlighted are all related to the bible. The sun coming over the horizon shows God answering her prayers.
Word Choice: Hurston uses a lot of vague references in this passage, using the word "it" repeatedly in the first part. Half way through she begins to reference everything as a "He".
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The very last sentance in this passage tells how Janie cant even sit in her chair, Hurston shows how weighted down she is with the burdens of worrying about Tea Cake.
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