When Janie meets Tea Cake, a poor and adventurous worker, she knows that he is seen as an undesirable and unsuitable match for her: “Janie, everybody’s talkin’ bout how Tea Cake is draggin you round tuh places you ain’t used tuh” (112). Knowing that people saw Tea Cake as an incompatible match did not stop Janie from loving him. Janie understood societies view of him, but did not allow this to stop her from trying to find true love. Through Tea Cake, Janie learned that real love is feeling appreciated and truly desired, and that her past relationships were not love: “Tea Cake love me in blue, so Ah wears it. Jody ain’t never in his life picked out no color for me”(112).
Joe and Logan had a big influence on how Janie could not trust Tea Cake at first. She showed Tea Cake she had some problems by saying, “It’s all right tuh come teach me, but don’t come tuh cheat me.”(pg.96) She was showing Tea Cake that she wasn’t a rookie in the relationship game. If Tea Cake was going to try and make a fool out of Janie she wasn’t going to let that happen. Tea Cake coming along really didn’t have a effect on her self-identity at first. Tea Cake did everything differently than Joe.
In the beginning Joe seems as if he is Janie’s “prince charming” but with time she soon realizes that he has an egotistical money hungry personality. He becomes very possessive over Janie, making her wear a head rag to conceal her hair, and he also prevents her from participating in events. Janie takes this relationship as an opportunity to grow and reach her full potential. Adjectives: Controlling, Egotistical Name: Tea Cake Role in the story: Janie’s last relationship of the novel. Significance to the story: Teak Cake is significant to this novel because he helps with Janie’s self- development.
When two people marry it should be because they love each other not because of money and the pressures from you family. F. Scott Fitzgerald describes the lives of Daisy and Tom Buchanan and also Daisy’s former lover, Jay Gatsby. In this novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ the conflict occurs when Daisy is about to marry Tom but finds out that Gatsby wants to resurrect their previous relationship. Family pressure, money and love are ideas presented in the passage through characterisation and symbolism and the reader is encouraged to disagree with Daisy’s actions. In many families there are conflicts or disagreements.
Their relationship was looked down upon by many townsfolk, and so to get away from their scrutinizing eyes, they ran away to a new town to get married. Janie and Tea Cake were happy with each other and Janie decided to leave her fortune behind to assure Tea Cake she didn’t need him to be successful for them to be happy. Both these Changes were primarily influenced by the characters love of another character, thus leading to a desire for
The author describes Elisa’s feeling as, “Everything goes right down into your fingertips. You watch your fingers work…” (p. 633). Once the tinker had left, Elisa’s mental stimulation and self-fulfillment had left with him too. It is clear that she is unsatisfied with the relationship she has with her husband. Before the headed out for dinner, Elisa started to dress nicer and look for feminine.
Alice Alice Cornwall is a baker’s daughter; Charlie thinks she is “something special.” From the outset Alice is a bright feisty girl full of energy, this beautifully complements her fiery red hair that she inherited from her dad. At first Alice thinks Charlie is “just like the rest of them”, but after what Charlie did for them made Alice favour him. Alice first meets Charlie at her family’s bakery where Charlie is running an errand for Squizzy to collect the debt from Mr Cornwall (Alice’s Father); at this point Charlie does not know that Alice is the daughter of Mr Cornwall. During this confrontation, Jimmy Barlow, Charlie’s rivalry enters the bakery, and Charlie by instinct is told to hide. At this moment to we find out that the Cornwall’s are broke, and by paying for the debt Charlie’s generous personality is highlighted.
In the time of the Great Depression people relied on dreams to keep themselves going and because Candy had lost his dog, he now believes this is a new venture and now completely revives his spirit. Finally, Candy shows the view of women in that period. In the time of 1930‟s America, women were not valued in society and were only seen as housewives or easy sex. Candy‟s view on Curley‟s Wife represents exactly these views as he first says to George that „I think Curley‟s married a … tart.‟ This shows the view that Curley‟s Wife is flirtatious and is seen as easy sex. Candy views Curley‟s Wife as inferior and is shown in Crooks‟ room when he says „you let this guy alone, don‟t you do no messin‟ with him,‟ this shows his view the Curley‟s Wife is a tart because when he says „messin‟ around‟ he means flirting which justifys his view on Curley‟s Wife.
But Daisy was a very picky girl. You can tell when she ignored all of the non wealthy, non classy men that tried to woo her. But then, the rich, handsome, elegant Jay Gatsby introduced himself to her, she couldn't have found a better person. Distracted by the present figure of Gatsby, she didn't love Gatsby, it was the image. For Gatsby, it made him believe that Daisy really fell in love with him.
| Janie experiences love for the first time. Janie loves Tea Cake even though he is not well-off like her previous husbands. She is prepared to do anything for him. | A hurricane devastates the Everglades. | Janie and Tea Cake manage to survive the deadly hurricane.